The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University. The team represents the university as a member of the Conference USA Eastern division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the Division 1 Bowl Subdivision level. Marshall plays at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,019. The stadium, which opened for the 1991 season as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,133 for a 24-23 win over New Hampshire. On September 8, 2007, when the Thundering Herd played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington for the first time in 92 years, Marshall hosted a record crowd of 40,383. Edwards Stadium is the only Division I field named solely for a woman, and Mrs. Edwards husband, James F. Edwards, has his name on the actual playing field. South Carolina's Williams-Brice Stadium is named in part for a woman