Jack Lengyel found purpose amongst tragedy as he took on the emotionally staggering task of re-establishing Marshall’s Thundering Herd football team after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team and coaching staff in 1970. Coach Lengyel reflects on the resilience of his Young Thundering Herd team and the Huntington, WV community working together to rebuild and rise from the ashes of tragedy. Jack Lengyel is a former football coach, lacrosse coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the College of Wooster from 1966 to 1970 and at Marshall University from 1971 until 1974. At Marshall, he took over the Thundering Herd football program after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970. Lengyel was the athletic director at California State University, Fresno from 1983 to 1986, at the University of Missouri from 1986 to 1988, and at the United States Naval Academy from 1988 to 2001. He served as the interim athletic director at Temple University in 2002, at Eastern Kentucky University from 2002 to 2003, and at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2004 to 2005. He currently resides in Annapolis, MD. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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