1978 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
Postseason college football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the UMass Minutemen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Division I-AA (now FCS) championship game. For the Division I-A (now FBS) champions, see 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season.
The 1978 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the UMass Minutemen. The game was played on December 16, 1978, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The culminating game of the 1978 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Florida A&M, 35–28.[3]
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I-AA National Championship Game Pioneer Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 16, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Memorial Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Wichita Falls, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 13,604[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | ABC Sports | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Bill Flemming (play-by-play), Frank Broyles (color)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
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This was the first season of I-AA play, and the first championship game for the newly formed division. The game was also known as the Pioneer Bowl,[4] a name that had been used starting in 1971 for various NCAA playoff games held in Wichita Falls.