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Marshall remembers worst US sports disaster 50 years later

by John Raby
| November 12, 2020 12:03 AM

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — After a plane crash killed most of Marshall University's football team in 1970, school administrators could have resorted to the simplest choice — dropping the losing sport altogether.

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