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The 1977 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1977 college football season as a member of the Yankee Conference in Division II (NCAA). The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Amherst Massachusetts. The 1977 season was the last the Minutemen would play as members of Division II as the Yankee Conference would be included in the newly formed Division I-AA in 1978.