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In light of the crash of the Wichita State football team just over a month earlier, school officials originally planned to cancel the flight. Instead, they opted to fly on a different plane than the one which crashed in Colorado (a Martin 4-0-4), and chartered the Southern Airways DC-9. [7]
Wichita State University: American football: Golden Eagle Aviation: Martin 4-0-4: Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States: 31: 15: 14 players and coach Ben Wilson were killed, in one of two planes en route to a game vs. Utah State University. Another plane with reserve players and assistant coaches landed safely in Utah. 14 November 1970 ...
A memorial site for the Wichita State University football team plane crash, featuring a sign, a cross, a jersey, and various tributes scattered across the hillside. A small, yellow plush mascot figure is placed inside a piece of cracked metal wreckage at the Wichita University football team plane crash site.
Among the survivors was quarterback Ted Tollner, [3] later the head coach at USC and San Diego State. At the time of the crash, Bowling Green State had been the easternmost opposing school ever to play football against Cal Poly. The university canceled the final three games of its 1960 season. [7]
California Polytechnic State University football team plane crash: Swanton Township: Ohio: Curtiss C-46 Commando: The aircraft crashed during takeoff due to a premature liftoff by the pilot. Contributing factors were that the aircraft was overloaded and partial loss of power from one engine. October 4, 1960 62 10 10 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 ...
A devastating plane crash this week has drawn Wichita, known as the "air capital of the world" and its aviation roots, into the national spotlight. 'Air capital' mourns after plane crash: What to ...
Albert C. Katzenmeyer (July 11, 1918 – October 2, 1970) was an American coach and administrator who was the men's golf coach at the University of Michigan from 1947 to 1968 and the Wichita State University athletic director from 1968 to 1970. He was one of 31 fatalities in the Wichita State University football team plane crash.
At Marshall, he took over the Thundering Herd football program after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970. Lengyel was the athletic director at California State University, Fresno from 1983 to 1986, at the University of Missouri from 1986 to 1988, and at the United States Naval Academy from 1988 ...