From our AD today....USU will honor WSU FB team

[USU78]

I love Utah State... what a great move. I read the most detailed account I've seen on this site
http://www.super70s.com/super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-10-02(Martin404).asp
and it is very sad. That crash should never have happened.

Great stuff. USU, even years after a tragedy of our own, with those memories still fresh after 45 years, understands at least to some degree:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Estes

There's a nice piece in the Deseret News today that quotes from a 1970 Shocker footballer, who tells a nice story about USU folks showing up at the team motel in Logan with bagmeals for the players who were going to make a very early bus trip out of town to catch their plane home: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...f-silence.html

[shockball]

I remember the Wayne Estes accident. I did not remember it was in Logan.

15 minutes before game time for the moment of silence means we'll listen live on the radio to our broadcasters Mike and Dave. Both of them were students in 1970. Dave lived in Fairmount Towers with most of the WSU athletes, including the football team.

[USU78]

I remember the Wayne Estes accident. I did not remember it was in Logan.

15 minutes before game time for the moment of silence means we'll listen live on the radio to our broadcasters Mike and Dave. Both of them were students in 1970. Dave lived in Fairmount Towers with most of the WSU athletes, including the football team.

Hope your folks enjoy the visit. Logan's a great place, but it's not exactly the "wide open spaces" you're used to. The valley is pretty good sized, but it's still a mountain valley with some pretty spectacular mountains:

http://images.google.com/images?oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=wellsville+mountains&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=KHiAS8HWJYWoswPjnKX-Aw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA

BTW: Estes, unlike what's stated in the Wiki, didn't step on a live wire, he walked into it. He was 6'6, his buddy was 6'2. The friend walked right under the wire . . . it brushed Estes' forehead and knocked him across the street. Killed instantly. I was in the 5th grade at the time. He was my hero. Still is, I guess.