Active athletes, coaches and officials who died in plane
crashes:
Oct. 18, 1925 -- Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, in
Houston.
March 31, 1931 -- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in
Kansas.
May 4, 1949 -- 22 members of Torino, the Italian soccer
champions, in Turin, Italy.
Oct. 27, 1949 -- Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight
champion, en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.
July 1, 1954 -- John McBride, Alabama halfback, killed in ROTC
training flight in Texas.
Oct. 30, 1954 -- Wilbur Shaw, President of Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, in Decatur, Ind.
Sept. 20, 1956 -- Tom Gastall, Baltimore Oriole catcher, in
Maryland.
Nov. 27, 1956 -- Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, in
Venezuela.
Feb. 6, 1958 -- Eight members of the English soccer champion
Manchester United, in Munich.
Aug. 14, 1958 -- Six members of the Egyptian fencing team, in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Oct. 30, 1958 -- Philip Scrutton, British Walker Cup golfer.
April 29, 1959 -- Joaquin Blume, Spain's European gymnastics
champion, in Madrid.
Oct. 10, 1960 -- 16 members of the Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo
football team, in Toledo, Ohio.
Feb. 16, 1961 -- 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, in
Belgium.
April 3, 1961 -- Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer
team, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.
March 1, 1962 -- Johnny Dieckman, world fly-casting champion, in
Chicago.
April 12, 1962 -- Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver, in
Melbourne.
Feb. 15, 1964 -- Ken Hubbs, 22, Chicago Cub second baseman, in
Utah.
July 24, 1966 -- Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in
Munster, Ind.
April 28, 1968 -- Six members of the Lamar Tech track team, in
Beaumont, Texas.
Sept. 26, 1969 -- 25 members of Bolivian soccer team ``The
Strongest'', in the Andes.
Oct. 2, 1970 -- 14 Wichita State football players, in Colorado.
Nov. 14, 1970 -- 37 Marshall University football players, in
Huntington, W.Va.
Oct. 11, 1972 -- 30 members of a Uruguayan rugby club, in Chile.
Dec. 31, 1972 -- Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder,
from San Juan, Puerto Rico en route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake
victims.
June 24, 1975 -- Wendell Ladner, New York Nets forward, in New
York.
Dec. 13, 1977 -- 14 University of Evansville basketball players
and coach Bobby Watson in Evansville, Ind.
Aug. 2, 1979 -- Thurman Munson, New York Yankee catcher, in
Canton, Ohio.
Jan. 11, 1980 -- Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in the Atlantic
Ocean.
March 14, 1980 -- 14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team in
Warsaw, Poland.
Aug. 16, 1987 -- Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, in Romulus,
Mich.
Dec. 8, 1987 -- 17 players of the Alianza Peruvian first-division
soccer team in Lima, Peru.
Sept. 30, 1988 -- Al Holbert, six-time IMSA champion, near
Columbus Ohio.
July 19, 1989 -- Jay Ramsdell, CBA Commissioner, in Sioux City,
Iowa.
April 1, 1993 -- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR's 1992 champion, in
Blountville, Tenn.
April 28, 1993 -- 18 players and five team officials of Zambia's
national soccer team in Libreville, Gabon.
July 13, 1993 -- Davey Allison, NASCAR driver, the day after a
helicopter he was piloting crashed on the infield at Talladega
Superspeedway in Birmingham, Ala.
April 18, 1996 -- Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback, two days
before the NFL draft, when the small plane he was piloting crashed
in Raymond, Neb.
May 11, 1996 -- Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back,
in Florida Everglades.
Oct. 25, 1999 -- Payne Stewart, winner of the 1989 PGA
Championship and a two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of
Mina, S.D.
