“Considering Jack Lengyel’s personal and professional influence on Marshall University and the Naval Academy, it is only appropriate that he be acknowledged on this special day,” Gladchuk said.

Jack Lengyel, who took over as head coach of the Marshall football team after the 1970 crash, joins Hoppy Kercheval to talk about the 50th anniversary of the tragedy and taking over afterward.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Jack Lengyel remembers sitting in his Ohio home and watching the news that November night, horrified. A college football coach himself, a thick lump rested in Lengyel's throat ...

Boulder – Jack Lengyel will leave Colorado in about two weeks and begin his retirement in earnest in Arizona. He won’t, however, depart without leaving CU a few parting gifts – one ...

Jack Lengyel hit the ground running when he was hired as interim athletic director December 1. Rather than merely manage a department in crisis, most close observers ...

Tags: Matthew McConaughey, Jack Lengyel, Sports, Jim Justice FILE - A memorial plaque is displayed at the site of a 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people, including 36 Marshall football players ...

West Virginia's governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster in U.S. history.

West Virginia's governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster in U.S. history.

Tags: Matthew McConaughey, Jack Lengyel, Sports, Jim Justice FILE - A memorial plaque is displayed at the site of a 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people, including 36 Marshall football players ...

Marshall hired Jack Lengyel as the new football coach in 1971. The program's rebuilding was the subject of the 2006 movie “We are Marshall” starring Matthew McConaughey as Lengyel.