'We Are Marshall'
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People who died on the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 on Nov. 14, 1970 near Ceredo, W. Va., including 37 students and eight coaching staff members on the Marshall University football team. The tragedy and its aftermath are the subject of "We Are Marshall."
2-8
Record of Marshall's football team the following season, with a roster primarily consisting of underclassmen and players from other Marshall athletic teams.
24
Consecutive winning seasons for Marshall's football team between 1984 and 2004, a majority of those years on the I-AA level.
1997
Year that Marshall's football team ascended from I-AA to I-A, with a team that included NFL players Chad Pennington and Randy Moss.
7.2
User rating of "We Are Marshall" on imdb.com.
5
My 10-scale rating for "We Are Marshall." The story that it's based on is powerful, of course, and the Hollywood version is absorbing enough. But if you've seen most 21st-century major-studio based-on-a-true-story sports movies like "Remember the Titans" or "Glory Road," then you've pretty much seen this movie. You don't really get to know the surviving players all that well -- coach Jack Lengyel and university president Donald Dedmon are the only people who get much focus.
People who died on the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 on Nov. 14, 1970 near Ceredo, W. Va., including 37 students and eight coaching staff members on the Marshall University football team. The tragedy and its aftermath are the subject of "We Are Marshall."
2-8
Record of Marshall's football team the following season, with a roster primarily consisting of underclassmen and players from other Marshall athletic teams.
24
Consecutive winning seasons for Marshall's football team between 1984 and 2004, a majority of those years on the I-AA level.
1997
Year that Marshall's football team ascended from I-AA to I-A, with a team that included NFL players Chad Pennington and Randy Moss.
7.2
User rating of "We Are Marshall" on imdb.com.
5
My 10-scale rating for "We Are Marshall." The story that it's based on is powerful, of course, and the Hollywood version is absorbing enough. But if you've seen most 21st-century major-studio based-on-a-true-story sports movies like "Remember the Titans" or "Glory Road," then you've pretty much seen this movie. You don't really get to know the surviving players all that well -- coach Jack Lengyel and university president Donald Dedmon are the only people who get much focus.

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