1979 Davidson Wildcats Football Team
The 1979 Davidson Wildcats football team represented Davidson College as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Ed Farrell, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 6–4. Schedule References Davidson Davidson Wildcats football seasons Davidson Wildcats football The Davidson Wildcats football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Davidson College located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are membe ...

Southern Conference
The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. Southern Conference College football, football teams compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Established in 1921, the Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States, and either the third- or fourth-oldest in continuous operation, depending on definitions. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten Conference, Big Ten (1896) and Missouri Valley Conference, Missouri Valley (1907) are indisputably older. The Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the h ...
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Lewisburg is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States, south by southeast of Williamsport and north of Harrisburg. In the past, it was the commercial center for a fertile grain and general farming region. The population was 5,158 as of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Union County. Located in central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley, on the West Branch Susquehanna River, Lewisburg is northwest of Sunbury. It is home to Bucknell University and is near the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Its 19th-century downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places. Lewisburg is the principal city of the ''Lewisburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area'', and is also part of the larger '' Bloomsburg-Berwick-Sunbury, PA Combined Statistical Area.'' History Lewisburg was founded in 1785 by Ludwig Derr. A settler of the area (since as early as 1763–1769), Derr had purchased several tracts of land from the William Penn family and other neighboring land o ...
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1979 Southern Conference Football Season
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Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg is a city in and the seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city of Spartanburg has a municipal population of 38,732 as of the 2020 census, making it the 11th-largest city in the state. For a time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) grouped Spartanburg and Union Counties together as the Spartanburg metropolitan statistical area, but as of 2018,the OMB defines only Spartanburg County as the Spartanburg MSA. Spartanburg is the second-largest city in the greater Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,385,045 as of 2014. It is part of a 10-county region of northwestern South Carolina known as " The Upstate", and is located northwest of Columbia, west of Charlotte, North Carolina, and about northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Spartanburg is the home of Wofford College, Converse University, and Spartanburg Community College, and the area is home to USC Upstate and Spartanburg Method ...
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1979 Furman Paladins Football Team
The 1979 Furman Paladins football team was an American football team that represented Furman University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Dick Sheridan, the Paladins compiled an overall record of 5–6 with a conference mark of 4–3, placing fourth in the SoCon. Schedule References Furman Furman Paladins football seasons Furman Paladins football The Furman Paladins football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Furman University located in the state of South Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as members of t ...

Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, the List of United States cities by population, 69th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 299,035. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40 in North Carolina, Interstate 40, Interstate 85 in North Carolina, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73 in North Carolina, Interstate 73) in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city. In 1808, Greensborough (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts ...
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem is a city in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bethlehem had a total population of 75,781. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County and 19,343 were in Lehigh County. It is Pennsylvania's seventh most populous city. The city is located along the Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River. Bethlehem lies in the center of the Lehigh Valley, a metropolitan region of with a population of 861,899 people as of the 2020 census that is Pennsylvania's third most populous metropolitan area and the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. Smaller than Allentown but larger than Easton, Bethlehem is the Lehigh Valley's second most populous city. Bethlehem borders Allentown to its west and is north of Philadelphia and west of New York City. There are four sections to the city: central Bethlehem, the south side, the east side, and the west side. Each of these secti ...
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Taylor Stadium (Lehigh)
Taylor Stadium was a stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It hosted the Lehigh University Engineers football team until they moved to Goodman Stadium in 1988. History Prior to becoming a stadium the area was a practice field with no bleachers. Charles L. Taylor, an alumni from the class of 1876, proposed turning the field into a purpose built stadium. Construction was largely financed by alumni donations, with the single largest donation came from Charles M. Schwab and his wife Emma Schwab. The stadium opened in 1914 making it just the third concrete stadium in the United States. The stadium would be used by the Lehigh Engineers football, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, and track and field teams as their primary venue. Later in the stadium's life Bethlehem Steel donated a grandstand increasing the stadium's capacity to 20,000. In 1987 Lehigh University sought to diversify its courses and build a business school. Despite the stadium's historical significance, and cultural identit ...
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1979 Lehigh Engineers Football Team
The 1979 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Engineers finished the year ranked No. 3 in Division I-AA and qualified for the four-team national playoff. They won their semifinal but lost the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game. In their fourth year under head coach John Whitehead, the Engineers compiled a 10–3 record (9–2 in the regular season). Rich Andres, Jim McCormick and Eric Yaszemski were the team captains. Lehigh returned to the national championship two years after winning the NCAA Division II Football Championship and the Lambert Cup in 1977. Its two regular season losses in 1979 were away games at Colgate, a Division I-A team, and at Delaware, the eventual Division II champion. Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Schedule References {{197 ...
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Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium
Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium is a 13,100-seat multi-purpose stadium at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Originally built in 1924, the stadium was renovated and renamed in honor of Mathewson in 1989. It is home to the Bucknell Bison football team from the Patriot League and the Lewisburg Area High School Green Dragons football team. It is named for Christy Mathewson, a Bucknell alumnus who went on to become a Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Giants in the early 20th century. Mathewson was on the Walter Camp All-American football team as a kicker while a student at Bucknell. Notable events On April 17, 2021 the stadium hosted the first Patriot League Football Championship Game. Holy Cross beat Bucknell 33–10 for the Patriot League Football championship See also * List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums The following is a list of current National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I Football Championship Subdiv ...
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Ed Farrell
Edward Farrell (born ) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1970 to 1973 and Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina from 1974 to 1984. Farrell was also the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Asheville from 1985 to 1990 and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1990 to 1996. A native of Brewster, New York, Farrell attended Rutgers University, where he played football as an end. He began his coaching career in 1956 as head football coach at New Paltz High School in New Paltz, New York. After a year in the United States Army, he returned to coaching in 1958 at Cambridge High School in Cambridge, Maryland. He served as head football coach at Cambridge from 1958 to 1960 and then at Guilderland High School in Guilderland, New York Guilderland is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Albany County, New ...
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1979 Bucknell Bison Football Team
The 1979 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their fourth year under head coach Bob Curtis, the Bison compiled a 4–4–2 record. John Campana and Mike McDonald were the team captains. Bucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Schedule References {{Bucknell Bison football navbox Bucknell Bucknell Bison football seasons Bucknell Bison football The Bucknell Bison football team represents Bucknell University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) level. Bucknell is a member of the Patriot League. Bucknell won the first ...