1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game

This article is about the Division I-AA (now FCS) championship game. For the Division I-A (now FBS) champions, see 1979 Alabama Crimson Tide football team.

1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
I-AA National Championship Game
Lehigh Engineers Eastern Kentucky Colonels
(10–2) (10–2)
Independent Ohio Valley
7 30
Head coach: 
John Whitehead		 Head coach: 
Roy Kidd
AP
3 (tied)
AP
3 (tied)
1234 Total
Lehigh 0700 7
Eastern Kentucky 7779 30
DateDecember 15, 1979
Season1979
StadiumOrlando Stadium
LocationOrlando, Florida
Attendance5,200[1]
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC Sports
AnnouncersBill Flemming (play-by-play), Frank Broyles (color)[2]
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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The 1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and the Lehigh Engineers (now the Lehigh Mountain Hawks). The game was played on December 15, 1979, at Orlando Stadium (now Camping World Stadium) in Orlando, Florida. The culminating game of the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Eastern Kentucky, 30–7.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference TDbox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Henniger, Paul (December 15, 1979). "Viewing Sports". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. Retrieved May 12, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Lehigh Routed By 30-7". The New York Times. AP. December 16, 1979. Retrieved May 12, 2019.