Factual error: During the Marshall-Xavier game the announcer refers to Xavier as the "Pirates", but Xavier's nickname is and was "Musketeers".
We Are Marshall (2006)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: McG
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Matthew Fox
Marshall wins the game against Xavier University. Jack (Matthew McConaughey) gives the ball to who he considers to be the MVP and gives it to Dedmon. Red (Matthew Fox) leaves the team at the end of the year and is never involved with football ever again. Jack leaves the team some time later and becomes coach at a Naval Academy. Marshall's victory against Xavier is one of the few games they win in the 1971 season but the team improves in the following decades. Ruffin dies in 2001. Gene Morehouse's son also becomes an announcer of Marshall games. Footage of past games is shown at the end. Annie decides to move to California without her boyfriend, Chris, who died in the plane crash. Paul Griffin sells his steel company and ends up doing tours of the 'Young Thundering Herd's locker rooms and the coach's office.
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More mistakes in We Are Marshall
Nate Ruffin: Coach, that... was my team. They left it in my hands.
Jack Lengyel: No... no, they did not. They just left.
Trivia: Red Dawson has a cameo as the head coach of Morehead State.
Question: Why didn't the NCAA let freshmen play football before 1971? What were their reasons for not wanting freshmen to play?
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Answer: The original idea was to force Freshmen players to gradually adapt to both a tougher form of football and the tougher academic requirements of college.
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