1979 NCAA Division III football season

Regular season

August – November 1979

Playoffs

November – December 1979

Garrett-Harrison Stadium
Phenix City, AL

Ithaca Bombers

Division III football seasons
« 1978	1980 »

The 1979 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1979, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship in December 1979 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Ithaca Bombers won their first Division III championship, defeating the Wittenberg Tigers by a final score of 14−10 in a re-match of the 1975 championship (won by Wittenberg).^[1]

Conference champions

Conference champions
College Athletic Conference – Southwestern at Memphis, Rose–Hulman, and Sewanee College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Millikin Independent College Athletic Conference – Ithaca Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Dubuque Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hope Middle Atlantic Conference – Lycoming (North), Widener (South) Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference – Lawrence Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Concordia–Moorhead, Saint John's (MN), St. Olaf, and St. Thomas (MN) New England Football Conference – New Haven New Jersey State Athletic Conference – Montclair State Northwest Conference – Pacific Lutheran Ohio Athletic Conference – Denison (Red Division), Wittenberg (Blue Division) Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference‡ – Lock Haven Presidents' Athletic Conference – Carnegie Mellon Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Claremont–Mudd–Scripps Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Austin Twin Rivers Conference – Northwestern–St. Paul Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin–River Falls

Postseason

The 1979 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the seventh annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama for the seventh consecutive year. Like the previous four championships, eight teams competed in this edition.^[2]

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket

Quarterfinals Campus Sites		Semifinals Campus Sites		National Championship Game Garrett-Harrison Stadium Phenix City, AL


Wittenberg	21

Millersville	14
		Wittenberg	17

		Widener	14
Widener	29

Baldwin Wallace	8
				Wittenberg	10

				Ithaca	14
Carnegie Mellon	31

Minnesota–Morris	25
		Carnegie Mellon	6

		Ithaca	15
Ithaca	27

Dubuque	7

References

↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records". NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
↑ "1979 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket". NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 1, 2014.

NCAA football seasons

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1979 NCAA Division III football season

Conference champions

Postseason

NCAA Division III Playoff bracket

See also

References