The 1978 Angelo State Rams football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Angelo State University Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas. It was founded in 1928 as San Angelo College. It gained university status and awarded its first baccalaureate degrees in 1967 and graduate degrees in 1969, the same year it too ...

and won the national championship during the

1978 NAIA Division I football season The 1978 NAIA Division I football season was the 23rd season of college football sponsored by the NAIA, was the ninth season of play of the NAIA's top division for football. The season was played from August to November 1978 and culminated in th ...

. In their fifth season under head coach

Jim Hess James Ray Hess (December 1, 1936 – October 2, 2021) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas from 1974 to 1981, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas ...

, the Rams compiled a perfect 14–0 record. They participated in the NAIA Division I playoffs, defeating (35–3) in the semifinals and (34–14) in the City of Palms Bowl to win the NAIA Division II championship.

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