1979 Lamar Cardinals football team
| 1979 Lamar Cardinals football | |
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| Conference | Southland Conference |
| 1979 record | 6–3–2 (3–2 Southland) |
| Head coach | Larry Kennan (1st year) |
| Home stadium |
Cardinal Stadium (Capacity: 17,500) |
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McNeese State $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas–Arlington | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lamar | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southwestern Louisiana | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana Tech | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1979 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar finished the 1979 season with a 6–3–2 overall record and a 3–2 conference record. The 1979 season marked Larry Kennan's first season as Lamar's head football coach. The season also marked higher attendance at Cardinal Stadium. The second and fourth highest attended games were recorded in the season with 17,600 attending the game against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and 17,250 attending the game against the West Texas State Buffaloes.[1]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | |||
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| September 8 | at Baylor* | Floyd Casey Stadium • Waco, TX | L 7–20 | 25,000 | |||||
| September 15 | at Western Kentucky* | L. T. Smith Stadium • Bowling Green, KY | W 58–27 | ||||||
| September 22 | Louisiana Tech | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 19–17 | 17,600 | |||||
| October 6 | West Texas State* | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | T 12–12 | 17,250 | |||||
| October 13 | McNeese State | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | L 25–34 | ||||||
| October 20 | Southwestern Louisiana | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 21–17 | ||||||
| October 27 | at Arkansas State | Indian Stadium • Jonesboro, AR | W 20–10 | ||||||
| November 3 | at Northeast Louisiana* | Malone Stadium • Monroe, LA | W 21–7 | ||||||
| November 10 | Northwestern State* | Cardinal Stadium • Beaumont, TX | W 28–13 | ||||||
| November 17 | at Texas–Arlington | Cravens Stadium • Arlington, TX | L 37–47 | ||||||
| November 23 | at UNLV* | Sam Boyd Stadium • Las Vegas, NV | T 24–24 | ||||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. p. 10. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ↑ "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. pp. 108–109. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ↑ David DeLassus. "Lamar Yearly Results (1975-1979)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
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