Marshall University Athletics
Marshall Athletics to Honor '84 Team with Homecoming Reunion
10/2/2014 12:00:00 AM | Football
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Athletics will honor the 1984 Thundering Herd football team next weekend for the program’s Homecoming game against Middle Tennessee (noon, Fox Sports Net telecast).
That season, the team finished with a 6-5 record, the program’s first winning season in 18 years and the first since the horrific 1970 plane crash that took the lives of all 75 aboard Southern Airlines Flight 932 on Nov. 14, 1970.
Team captains were offensive lineman Rob Bowers and linebacker Tony Lellie.
Among those planning to attend the event are defensive lineman Tony Bolland, Bowers, quarterback Carl Fodor, offensive lineman Sam Manos, defensive lineman Marty Palazeti, running back Robert Surratt, wide receiver Brian Swisher and head coach Stan Parrish.
The group will be honored with a reunion and social in the Big Green Room at Joan C. Edwards Stadium at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, and will tailgate in the West Lot at 9 a.m. Saturday before being recognized on the field prior to the Herd’s Conference USA game with the Blue Raiders.
