1979 Lamar Cardinals football team

1979 Lamar Cardinals football
Conference	Southland Conference
1979 record	6–3–2 (3–2 Southland)
Head coach	Larry Kennan (1st year)
Home stadium	Cardinal Stadium (Capacity: 17,500)

1979 Southland Conference football standings
	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
$ – Conference champion Louisiana Tech record includes one win by forfeit. Rankings from AP Poll

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

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Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
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

1. "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. p. 10. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
2. "2015 Lamar University Football". Lamar University Athletics. pp. 108–109. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
3. David DeLassus. "Lamar Yearly Results (1975-1979)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 27, 2016.