UMass History 1979

Below are scans from three different game programs in 1979. They present the roster list, team photo, starters and coaches.

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The first image of the series shows the UMass-Maine program of 09/22/79. It has pictures of all the trophies that UMass won in 1978, when we went to the first FCS/I-AA championship game.

The old Beanpot Yankee Conference trophy is in the front.

In 1979 UMass went 6-4 overall. We went 4-1 in the Yankee Conference to tie with Boston University for the league title. Two of those losses were to Villanova and Boston College (both I-A in 1979)

UMass Captains were Mike McEvilly and Kevin Sullivan.

In the coaches, Paul Pawlek went on the Head Coach at Northeastern, Mike Hodges became head coach at UMass (and Richmond and VMI for Reid). Clarence Brooks and Ken Conaster went on to a long coaching careers.

Kevin Sullivan CB and Sandro Vitello PK were All-Yankee Conference first team.

Note that I've also up-loaded these images to the Picasa web album that has historical images from game programs in:

• 1976
• 1977
• 1978
• 1979

The link is in the side bar and also here .