'We Are Marshall': Fact vs. Fiction

HUNTINGTON -- Lively conversations have been happening on The Herald-Dispatch forums, and plenty of e-mails have poured in asking questions about what really happened in the true story of "We Are Marshall."


The Warner Bros. Pictures film tells the story of the Marshall University football team after a 1970 plane crash that killed all 75 people aboard, including most of the team members, staff and many fans. Here is a fact vs. fiction Q&A.

Q: Did Marshall really have a difficult time recruiting players, and were they really competing with West Virginia University?

A: Yes, said former Marshall head football coach Jack Lengyel. Many of the players they attempted to recruit did in fact end up as Mountaineers as the movie showed, he said.

"We never saw it that way, as an obstacle. We just looked at it as an opportunity to build," Lengyel said. "We lost a lot of players. WVU got some, and then other schools got some. ... But there were a lot of players who accepted our challenge."

 

 

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