Marshall suspended its football program during World War II, but many notables who later would be important figures in area sports were members of the 1946 team, above. They are, from left, front row, Gatewood, Williams, Smith, Wilson, Rowe, Chapman, Snyder, Blevins, L. Gibson, Clark, C. Miller, and Kautz; second row, Niday, Seelinger, Costello, Anderson, Young, Bowling, Lipscomb, Roberts, D. Gibson, McCoy, McComas, Allen, Campbell and Bias; third row, Haman, Rowsey, Childers, Rule, Preston, Plybon, Mullins, Brackman, Fieldson, Sang, Henthorne, Freeman, Wetzel, Powell, and Lawthon.