1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game

1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
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)
Date	December 15, 1979
Season	1979
Stadium	Orlando Stadium
Location	Orlando, Florida
Attendance	5,200
United States TV coverage
Network	ABC Sports
Announcers	Bill Flemming (play-by-play), Frank Broyles (color)
NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship
< 1978	1980 >

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]

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^ Henniger, Paul (December 15, 1979). "Viewing Sports". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. Retrieved May 12, 2019 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Lehigh Routed By 30‐7". The New York Times. AP. December 16, 1979. Retrieved May 12, 2019.