 Marshall plays football at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,019.The stadium, which opened for the 1991 season as Marshall University Stadium with a then-record crowd of 33,116 for a 24–23 win over New Hampshire, hosted a record crowd of 41,382 on September 10, 2010, when the Thundering Herd played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers.On a facade on the stadium's west side is a bronze memorial dedicated to the 1970 plane-crash victims.