1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
| 1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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| I-AA National Championship Game | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 15, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Orlando Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 5,200 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC Sports | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bill Flemming (play-by-play), Frank Broyles (color) | ||||||||||||||||||
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.