1977 UMass Minutemen football team

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1977 UMass Minutemen football
Yankee Conference champion
ConferenceYankee Conference
Record8–3 (5–0 Yankee)
Head coach
Home stadiumAlumni Stadium
Seasons
← 1976
1978 →
1977 Yankee Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 UMass $ 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
Rhode Island 4 – 1 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire 3 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Boston University 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Maine 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Connecticut 1 – 4 – 0 1 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Associated Press poll

The 1977 UMass Minutemen football team represented the

NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs, losing in the quarterfinals to the eventual national champion, Lehigh. The team played home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts
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The 1977 season was the last in which UMass competed at the NCAA Division II level, as the Yankee Conference moved to the NCAA's newly-formed Division I-AA—now known at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)—in 1978.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 10Army*
L 10–3422,101
September 17Maine
W 28–08,400
September 24at Harvard*
W 17–09,000–10,116[1]
October 1Youngstown State*No. 10
  • Alumni Stadium
  • Hadley, MA
W 54–137,200
October 8Boston UniversityNo. 8
  • Alumni Stadium
  • Hadley, MA
W 41–164,700[2]
October 15Rhode IslandNo. 7
  • Alumni Stadium
  • Hadley, MA
W 37–610,500
October 28at
rivalry
)		W 10–07,122
November 5Holy Cross*No. T–3
  • Alumni Stadium
  • Hadley, MA
W 28–68,100[3]
November 12at No. 5 New HampshireNo. 3
W 19–620,000
November 19at Boston College*No. 2
L 7–3430,846[4]
November 26No. 8 Lehigh*No. 2
L 23–304,964–5,700[5]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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  6. ^ "Final 1977 Cumulative Football Statistics Report". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved December 24, 2022.


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