The 1979 Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks football team represented the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) during the 1979 NCAA Division II football season.
Led by first-year head coach Tyrone Caldwell, the Hawks compiled an overall record of 3–7–1, with a mark of 0–0 in conference play, and finished seventh in the MEAC.
Although the MEAC was classified as part of the NCAA Division I-AA, Maryland Eastern Shore (along with Morgan State and North Carolina Central) competed as part of Division II for the 1979 season.
[1] In December the football program was officially suspended, and this made 1979 the final season for intercollegiate football at Maryland Eastern Shore.
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