Sports Leadership Resource Centre: Movies
Summary: Football is a game that knocks you down, and then expects you to get back up. Life hit West Virginia town of Huntington and its Marshall University even harder. When it did, coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) was recruited to help pull them onto their feet by taking the job no one wanted: rebuilding the Marshall football program only months after a plane crash wiped out Marshall’s beloved “Thundering Herd.” Together with assistant coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) and supported by the University’s president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn), they turned a handful of rookies and second-string players into a competitive team who in 1971 showed the world what they could do in a legendary game against Marshall’s rivals, Xavier University. “We are Marshall” is true story of tragedy, hope and resilience.
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