1979 NCAA Division III football season Regular season August – November 1979
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 changes and new programs [ ] 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 [ ] 
