Marshall Thundering Herd | |||
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Current season: 2024 Marshall Thundering Herd | |||
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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 | |||
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 | |||
Colors | Kelly Green and White
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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[]
- 2022-present - Sun Belt Conference (NCAA FBS)
- 2005-2021 - Conference USA (NCAA FBS/1-A)
- 1997-2004 - Mid-American Conference (NCAA 1-A)
- 1977-1996 - Southern Conference (NCAA 1-AA)
Seasons[]
2020s[]
Season | Coach | Record |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1970s[]
Season | Coach | Record |
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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[]
- ↑ College Football Data Warehouse. Marshall's National Championship. College Football Data Warehouse.
- ↑ Herd Notebook: Upstairs, Jerseys, Turf. Herdzone. Retrieved on August 25, 2013.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lind, Andrew. "Marshall Thundering Herd Introduce New Road Football Uniforms", news.sportslogos.net, July 25, 2019. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.
- ↑ Lind, Andrew. "Marshall Thundering Herd Reveal New Home Uniforms", news.sportslogos.net, August 22, 2020. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.