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Entire team (save one player) and coaching staff, along with members of the press, boosters, and plane crew, were all killed in a crash shortly after takeoff from Evansville en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State University. The sole team member who did not board the plane died in a car crash two weeks later. 16 March 1978
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 ]
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
In 2023, 16 youth league, middle school, high school and collegiate football players died while playing the game, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury. For more People ...
The 1957 crash was discussed on the May 19, 1957, episode of The CBS Radio Workshop (entitled "Heaven Is In the Sky"). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The program described when and how both planes took off from their respective airfields, and included discussion of how the Pacoima Junior High School was having the 7th-grade students outside for exercise.
A flag declaring evidence is placed off Natchez Trace following a plane crash where three people were killed in Williamson County, Tenn., Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
Following the crash, the Arctic-Pacific Company lost its certificate to charter airplanes. [4] [6] 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.
An Alabama high school football player has died a day after he suffered a brain injury during a game. ... the injury occurred during a tackle in the third-quarter of the season opener, AL reports.