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Marshall Thundering Herd
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AmericanFootball current event 2024 Marshall Thundering Herd
1280px-Marshall Thundering Herd logo NCAA-Sun Belt-Marshall Thundering Herd white helmet
First season 1895
Athletic director Christian Spears
Head coach Charles Huff
3rd year, 19–10 (.655)
Home stadium Joan C. Edwards Stadium
Field James F. Edwards Field
Stadium capacity 38,227
Stadium surface AstroTurf
Location Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
Conference Sun Belt Conference
Division East
Past conferences WVIAC (1925–1932)
Buckeye (1933–1938)
OVC (1948–1951)
MAC (1954–1968, 1997–2004)
SoCon (1977–1996)
C-USA (2005–2021)
All-time history
Marshall Thundering Herd Historical Teams
1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
All-time record 626–563–47 (.525)
Postseason bowl record 13–6 (.684)
Claimed national titles Div. I FCS: 2[1]Div. I FBS 1999
Conference titles 13
Division titles 9
Rivalries Appalachian State Mountaineers (rivalry)
Ohio Bobcats (rivalry)
East Carolina Pirates (rivalry)
West Virginia Mountaineers (rivalry)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (rivalry)
Central Florida Knights
Consensus All-Americans 44
Current uniform
NCAA-Sun Belt-Marshall Thundering Herd Uniforms
Colors Kelly Green and White

             


Fight song Sons of Marshall
Mascot Marco the Bison
Marching band Marching Thunder
Outfitter Nike
Website HerdZone.com

The Marshall Thundering Herd football team represents Marshall University located in Huntington, West Virginia. The Thundering Herd are a member of the NCAA FBS Sun Belt Conference and play their home games at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, which seats 38,227[2] and is expandable to 55,000. At the end of the 2022 football season, Marshall had a 181–44 record at Joan C. Edwards Stadium for a winning percentage of .804. The stadium opened in 1991 as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,116 for a 24–23 win over New Hampshire. On September 10, 2010, Marshall played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington in front of a record crowd of 41,382. Joan C. Edwards Stadium is one of two Division I stadiums named for a woman. The playing field is named James F. Edwards Field after Joan Edwards' husband, who was a businessman and philanthropist. The Thundering Herd (as of the start of the 2023 season) are currently coached by Charles Huff.

Affiliations[]

Seasons[]

2020s[]

Season Coach Record
2024 Charles Huff
2023 Charles Huff 6-7
2022 Charles Huff 9-4
2021 Charles Huff 7-6
2020 Doc Holliday 7-3

2010s[]

Season Coach Record
2019 Doc Holliday 8-5
2018 Doc Holliday 9-4
2017 Doc Holliday 8-5
2016 Doc Holliday 3-9
2015 Doc Holliday 10-3
2014 Doc Holliday 13-1
2013 Doc Holliday 10-4
2012 Doc Holliday 5-7
2011 Doc Holliday 7-6
2010 Doc Holliday 5-7

2000s[]

Season Coach Record
2009 Mark Snyder 7-6
2008 Mark Snyder 4-8
2007 Mark Snyder 3-9
2006 Mark Snyder 5-7
2005 Mark Snyder 4-7
2004 Bob Pruett 6-6
2003 Bob Pruett 8-4
2002 Bob Pruett 11-2
2001 Bob Pruett 11-2
2000 Bob Pruett 8-5

1990s[]

Season Coach Record
1999 Bob Pruett 13-0
1998 Bob Pruett 12-1
1997 Bob Pruett 10-3
1996 Bob Pruett 15-0
1995 Jim Donnan 12-3
1994 Jim Donnan 12-2
1993 Jim Donnan 11-4
1992 Jim Donnan 12-3
1991 Jim Donnan 11-4
1990 Jim Donnan 6-5

1980s[]

Season Coach Record
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980

1970s[]

Season Coach Record
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971 Jack Lengyel 2-8
1970 Rick Tolley 3-6

Uniforms and Logos[]

Traditionally, the logo for Marshall athletics has been usually a green "M" letter logo, usually in trim, on what usually has been white helmets. Kelly and white are the primary colors of the football uniforms. The program also has three logos featuring a bull head mascot, one with the mascot head inside of the "M" logo with the wordmark "MARSHALL", and the other with the stylized "The Herd" wordmark.

Historically, there has also been a black alternate uniform. Historically, the football team has worn a white helmet, with a kelly green stripe surrounded by two white and black stripes across the middle of the helmet, with the "M" letter logo in kelly green with white and black trim; they have also worn a silver, or a kelly green helmet with the same striping as the white helmets, with both the same "M" logo in black (or white trim). For a period in the mid / late 1970s, they also wore a silver helmet which featured a kelly green logo of the state of West Virginia with the "M" logo inside of it.

The Thundering Herd athletic program has had a long standing relationship with Nike as their official outfitter. In 2023, the Marshall sports program extended their partnership with Nike and BSN Sports as the official provider of Marshall's athletic apparel, as well as footwear and other equipment needs in a multi-year deal. [3]

In 2019, Marshall released 2 new (black home and white away) jerseys with 3 pants (black white, and kelly green.) The black and kelly green jerseys had the stylized "The Herd" alternate logo on the front. The white home jersey had the "Marshall" wordmark on the logo's front, with the Nike "swoosh" logo on both the jerseys and pants, which also had the "M" / "The Herd" wordmark logo also on the pants. The jersey numbers were in block font style on the road / alternate jerseys, as they had historically been, and in a varsity font style on the home white jerseys. The striping pattern which had been traditionally on the pants (white, black and kelly green) were removed. [4]

The football team presently also wears, at times, two alternate black helmets, one with the same logo, and the other, with a charging bull logo, both have a white stripe surrounded by two thinner black and kelly green striping pattern going across the middle of the helmet.

In 2020, the football program introduced the current new set of Nike home uniforms, which featured the same traditional striping pattern across the helmets (white, black and a slightly lighter kelly green), jerseys and pants, as well as a new jersey number font style on the jerseys, a double outline varsity jersey numbers (which were placed on the home jerseys in 2019) which now appears on all of the jerseys, and a contrasting black collar. [5]

Another later notable change occured in 2021, that the change of the conference which the team plays in, being as of 2022, the switch from Conference USA to the Sun Belt Conference, indicative in the conference logo on the jerseys.

Image gallery[]

References[]

  1. College Football Data Warehouse. Marshall's National Championship. College Football Data Warehouse.
  2. Herd Notebook: Upstairs, Jerseys, Turf. Herdzone. Retrieved on August 25, 2013.
  3. Staff (General) (February 16, 2023). Marshall Athletics Extends Partnership With Nike (BSN Sports also involved in multi-year agreement for Herd). HerdZone.com. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.
  4. Lind, Andrew. "Marshall Thundering Herd Introduce New Road Football Uniforms", news.sportslogos.net, July 25, 2019. Retrieved on September 24, 2023. 
  5. Lind, Andrew. "Marshall Thundering Herd Reveal New Home Uniforms", news.sportslogos.net, August 22, 2020. Retrieved on September 24, 2023. 

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