Year: | 1979 |
Team: | Wyoming Cowboys |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Western Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | WAC |
Record: | 4–8 |
Conf Record: | 2–5 |
Head Coach: | Bill Lewis |
Hc Year: | 3rd |
Captain: | Pat Ogrin, Danny Pittman, Vic Baginski, Mike Dennis, Scott Winfield, Hugh Albora |
Stadium: | War Memorial Stadium |
The 1979 Wyoming Cowboys football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wyoming as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third and final season under head coach Bill Lewis, the Cowboys compiled a 4–8 record (2–5 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place out of eight teams in the WAC, were outscored by a total of 276 to 186, and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming.[1]
For the first time since 1958, Wyoming played a home game in the month of November.