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Of the handful of players that missed the game at ECU, only one that I know of still lives in Huntington. Frank James (now age 56) owns and operates a small public golf course, Orchard Hills, in nearby Barboursville.
One other thing to those of you who watched the movie. It was very realistic and historically factually correct (other than the love story between the cheerleader and the son of the manager of the steel mill) with one major exception. The school president, Dr. Donald Dedmon, was not fired, rather, Dr. Dedmon was only acting president when the plane crash occured. He held a high position in the school administration and when our president moved on or retired (I don't recall) Dr. Dedmon was elevated to interim president and did not even apply for the new job. When the new president was hired a few months after the tragedy, Dr. Dedmon returned to his original permanent job (Provost I think) and a year or so later took the job as President of Radford University in Virginia, where he worked for many years and retired. Radford's on-campus athletic center is named the Dedmon Center in his honor.
Sam Hood