1979 NCAA Division III football season

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]

1979 NCAA Division III football season
Regular seasonAugust – November 1979
PlayoffsNovember – December 1979
Garrett-Harrison Stadium
Phenix City, AL
ChampionIthaca
NCAA Division III football seasons

Conference changes and new programs
School1978 Conference1979 Conference
FDU–FlorhamD-III IndependentMiddle Atlantic
Central FloridaNew ProgramD-III Independent
DuquesneRevived ProgramD-III Independent

Conference standings
1979 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dubuque $^ 7 –0 –0  9 –1 –0
Buena Vista 6 –1 –0  7 –2 –0
Central (IA) 5 –2 –0  6 –3 –0
Wartburg 3 –4 –0  5 –4 –0
Luther 2 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
Simpson 2 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
William Penn 2 –5 –0  2 –8 –0
Upper Iowa 1 –6 –0  3 –7 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant
1979 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Northern
Lycoming x 6 –0 –1  8 –1 –1
Upsala 5 –1 –1  ? –? –?
Juniata 4 –3 –0  5 –4 –0
Wilkes 4 –3 –0  4 –4 –0
Delaware Valley 3 –4 –0  5 –4 –0
Albright 3 –4 –0  3 –6 –0
Susquehanna 2 –5 –0  2 –7 –0
Fairleigh Dickinson–Florham 0 –7 –0  0 –10 –0
Southern
Widener x^ 8 –0 –0  10 –1 –0
Franklin & Marshall 6 –2 –0  7 –2 –0
Western Maryland 6 –2 –0  7 –2 –0
Muhlenberg 4 –3 –1  5 –3 –1
Swarthmore 4 –3 –1  4 –4 –1
Johns Hopkins 4 –4 –0  5 –4 –0
Lebanon Valley 4 –4 –0  5 –4 –0
Gettysburg 4 –4 –0  5 –6 –0
Ursinus 2 –6 –0  3 –6 –0
Dickinson 1 –7 –0  1 –8 –0
Moravian 0 –8 –0  0 –9 –0
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant
1979 New Jersey State Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Montclair State $ 4 –0 –1  8 –1 –1
Trenton State 4 –1 –0  7 –3 –0
William Paterson 3 –1 –1  5 –4 –1
Glassboro State 2 –3 –0  2 –8 –0
Kean 1 –4 –0  4 –5 –1
Jersey City State 0 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1979 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Carnegie Mellon $^ 7 –0 –0  10 –1 –0
Bethany (WV) 5 –2 –0  6 –2 –0
Thiel 5 –2 –0  6 –3 –0
Allegheny 3 –4 –0  3 –5 –0
Hiram 3 –4 –0  3 –5 –0
John Carroll 3 –4 –0  3 –6 –0
Case Western Reserve 1 –6 –0  3 –6 –0
Washington & Jefferson 1 –6 –0  1 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant

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]

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

See also

References
  1. "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 4–15. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
  2. "1979 NCAA Division III National Football Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 14. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
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