Jack Robert Lengyel ( born 1935 ) is a software executive and former American football coach , lacrosse coach , and college athletics administrator . He served as the head football coach at the College of Wooster from 1966 to 1970 and at Marshall University from 1971 until 1974 , compiling a career college football record of 33 – 54 . At Marshall , he took over the Thundering Herd football program after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970 . Lengyel was the athletic director at California State University , Fresno from 1983 to 1986 , at the University of Missouri from 1986 to 1988 , and at the United States Naval Academy from 1988 to 2001 . He served as the interim athletic director at Temple University in 2002 , at Eastern Kentucky University from 2002 to 2003 , and at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2004 to 2005
Southern Airways Flight 932
Southern Airways Flight 932
Jack Lengyel