Quote:By JACK BOGACZYK

HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – It is a special tribute to the people and a night that Marshall will never forget.

For the first time since the Nov. 14, 1970 Thundering Herd football team plane crash that took 75 lives, Marshall will play a road football game on the anniversary of that date.

Coach Doc Holliday’s Herd will be at Tulsa’s Skelly Field on Thursday for a prime-time Fox Sports 1 telecast game.

Here in Huntington, the MU campus will again pause emotionally earlier in the day for the annual Memorial Fountain ceremony and remembrance, and the fountain will be turned off for the winter, as is the tradition.

Approximately 70 members of the 2013 football team (6-3, 4-1) will not be able to attend the ceremony. However, 850 miles away in Oklahoma, those young men will pay a unique tribute to those who died in the crash – a display that will resonate with a national TV audience.