Fordham Rams
Fordham Rams | |
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Bahoshy Softball Complex/Murphy Field | |
Soccer stadium | Jack Coffey Field |
Other venues | Vincent T. Lombardi Memorial Center |
Mascot | Ram |
Nickname | "The Rams" "Old Maroon" |
Fight song | The Ram |
Colors | Maroon and white[2] |
Website | www |
The Fordham Rams are the
Fordham and the Ivy League
Fordham University sports, though not part of the
A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil.[5]
William Morris writes that Stanley Woodward actually took the term from fellow
Sports sponsored
Men's sports | Women's sports |
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Baseball | Softball |
Basketball | Basketball |
Cross country | Cross country |
Soccer | Soccer |
Swimming and diving | Swimming and diving |
Tennis | Tennis |
Track and field† | Track and field† |
Water polo | Volleyball |
Football | Rowing |
Golf | |
Squash | |
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor |
As a primary member of the
Baseball
Founded in the late 1850s, the Fordham Rose Hill Baseball Club of St. John's College (the precursor to Fordham University, and of no connection at all to St. John's University) played against St. Francis Xavier College in the first ever nine-man-team college baseball game on November 3, 1859. Fordham is the all time NCAA leader in wins.
There have been 56
The team plays home games at
Basketball
Fordham basketball teams (men and women) have been members of the MAAC (1981–82 through 1989–90), Patriot League (1990–91 through 1994–95), and the Atlantic 10 Conference (1995–96 through present).
Men
Fordham began competing in men's basketball in 1902. They played their first game in Rose Hill Gymnasium on January 16, 1925 (defeating Boston College, 46–16). On February 28, 1940, Fordham hosted the University of Pittsburgh at Madison Square Garden in the first ever televised basketball game. Pitt won, 57–37. The game was televised by NBC. Fordham University enjoyed its best season in 1970–1971, when the squad went 26–3 under coach Digger Phelps and was ranked number nine in the nation in the AP poll.
The Fordham men have won three Patriot League regular season conference titles (1991, 1992, 1994) and two Patriot League tournament championships (1991 and 1992).[10]
Fordham has participated in four
In the 2009–10 season, Fordham went 0–16 in the A-10 conference season (2–26 overall), becoming the first team to go winless in an A-10 conference season since St. Bonaventure in 1992–93.[13] That winless streak, which started during the 2008–09 season, ended on the 2010–11 season's final game, snapping the streak at 41.[14]
Through the end of the 2010–11 season, the program's cumulative record is 1,444 wins and 1,237 losses (.539 win percentage).
The Fordham men's basketball team has come a long way. With new coaches, winning records, and a rowdy student section, the men's basketball team has made its mark on the A-10 conference. After leading the team to a 25-8 record, head coach Keith Urgo received the John B. Hall award, one given to the top first-year coach in Division 1 basketball.
In addition, the Atlantic 10 conference named Keith Urgo coach of the year for the 2023 season, being the second Fordham coach to receive this honor.
The Fordham students showed up and showed out throughout the 2023 season, giving Rose Hill gymnasium the nickname of “Rose Thrill”. For the final 6 games of the regular season, it was a sold-out show, with students and Fordham fans filling every seat with energy and pride.
The Rams won more home games in the 2023 season than any other college team in the nation. [15]
Women
Women's basketball at Fordham began as a club team in 1963–64. They became an NCAA competitive team in 1970–71. The Rams have won the Patriot League Championship in 1992 and 1994 and the
Football
Tackle
On September 30, 1939, Fordham participated in the world's
Fordham has dropped their football program on several different occasions. Fordham first dropped football between 1894–95, and then again between 1910–11, 1919, and 1943-45.
With 722 all-time wins at the close of the 2005 season, Fordham's football program ranks 15th among Division I programs on the all-time NCAA wins list, and fifth among programs currently playing in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, trailing only Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Princeton University (putting the Rams in first among non-Ivy League schools in the FCS standings).
Fordham was invited to play in the 1942 Rose Bowl, but declined the invitation because it had previously accepted a berth in the 1942 Sugar Bowl. The Rams, who defeated the University of Missouri by a 2–0 score, were the 1942 Sugar Bowl champions. The Rams also played in the 1941 Cotton Bowl Classic but lost 13–12 to Texas A&M. At least one source lists Fordham as the 1929 National Football Champions.[19]
Since 2002, Fordham has played
Fordham University's 2023 Football team had an overall record of 6-5 with a 2-4 record in the Patriot League. Their biggest win of the season came against Lehigh University with a score of 38-35 on October 7, 2023. Kicker Brandon Peskin kicked the 44-yard game-winning field goal with one second left on the clock. [21]During the pregame on October 7, 2023, during Fordham University's homecoming football game, the school announced renaming the Jack Coffey Field to The Joe Moglia Stadium in honor of Fordham Alum Joe Moglia. [22]
Milestones
- National Championship: 1929[19]
- Bowl games:
- 1941 Cotton Bowl Classic (loss)[23]
- 1942 Sugar Bowl (win)[24]
- Patriot League champions: 2002, 2007, 2014
- NCAA Football Championship Subdivisionplayoffs: 2002 (quarterfinals loss), 2007 (first round loss), 2013 (second round loss), 2014 (second round loss)
- Division IIIplayoffs: 1987 (quarterfinals loss)
- Liberty Cupwinners: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Wins: 722 at the end of 2005 season, 15th most wins in Division I Football Championship Subdivision
Recent players in professional football
- Javarus Dudley, WR, Orlando Predators
- Kevin Eakin, QB, Team Alabama
- Aki Jones, DL, New York Dragons
- Tad Kornegay, DB, Calgary Stampeders
- Cary Williams, CB, Philadelphia Eagles
- John Skelton, QB, San Francisco 49ers
- Isa Abdul-Quddus, S, New Orleans Saints
- Patrick Murray, K, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Steve Skelton, TE, Houston Texans
- Chase Edmonds, RB, Miami Dolphins
Soccer
Men
The team currently plays in the Atlantic 10 conference and reached the quarterfinals[25] of the 2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer championships
Women
The team currently plays in the Atlantic 10 conference and has appeared in the Atlantic 10 Championship game in 2007[26] and 2015.[27]
Softball
The Fordham softball program has been the most successful recent program for the Rams, winning seven of the past eight Atlantic 10 championships (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and earning an NCAA championship berths in eight of the past nine years (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).
Swimming and diving
Fordham's Women's Swimming and Diving team was the first women's team to win an A10 championship. The men's swimming and diving team has also been successful in recent years.
Track and field
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Johnny Gibson, a 1928 graduate of Fordham, broke the 440 yd (400 m) Hurdles World Record while at the school and made the 1928 Olympic team in the same event. Gibson is known as a great contributor to the world of track and field as a founding member of the New Jersey Track and Field Officials Association and head coach of men's track and field at Seton Hall University from 1945 to 1972. Sam Perry set the World Record for the 60-yard dash indoors at the Milrose Games in 1965.[28]
Tom Courtney won Olympic gold in the 800 m run at the 1956 Games. While at Fordham Courtney had anchored the 2 mile relay that broke the world record in 1954.
Fordham track has had a resurgence in the past two decades with an All-Americans and numerous conference champions. Barry Cantrell earned all-American honors in the high jump in 1998. There have been several Atlantic 10 Conference champions including the jumping events, hammer throw. and the intermediate hurdles.[29]
In 2008, the men's track and field team won the Outdoor Metropolitan Championship. The title was the first ever Metropolitan Athletic Conference team title captured by the Rams in the school's history.[30] In the 2009 Outdoor Season the Rams defended their title, while the Women's squad captured second in the team scoring.
Water polo
Fordham's men's water polo team is an NCAA Division 1 program. They compete in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) against Brown University, Connecticut College, Harvard University, Iona, MIT, Queens College, St. Francis College. In 2010 and 2009 they placed third and fifth in the CWPA Eastern Division championship. Their coach, Bill Harris, was awarded the CWPA Coach of the Year in 2009. Fordham University alumnus Chris Judge (class of 1980) was inducted into the CWPA Hall of Fame in 2010.[31]
Clubs
Crew
Men's
Fordham crew trains on the
Ice hockey
The university supports hockey as a club sport.
The 2018-19 season was the Rams' most successful campaign to date. Aside from securing back to back (
In 2020, Fordham became a member of the Empire Collegiate Hockey Conference, "joining the most elite college club hockey league in the Atlantic region."[35] In 2020, Fordham also began its first season as a member of the Collegiate Hockey Federation (CHF) "whose membership represents the highest level of competition on a national level."[35] The team is coached by Rich Guberti, who was an assistant coach for two years and has been the head coach for the past eleven years. Until 2020, the team had gone 221-73-8-10 during this tenure.[35]
Lacrosse
Founded in 1970, the lacrosse program has grown tremendously. After years as the top independent lacrosse team in the New York metropolitan area, the team has been accepted to be a member of the National College Lacrosse League. The Rams currently compete in the New York Metro Division.
Rugby
The University supports men's
The women's team is a three-time champion of the Big Apple Classic, which is hosted on Randalls Island, New York. They also won the 2004 East Coast Division 3 Collegiate Championship in the spring of 2005.
Sailing
Fordham is a member of the
Nickname and mascot
During its early years, the sports teams were known as the Rose Hills, after the Rose Hill campus. During a 1883 baseball game against the United States Military Academy, students began cheering "One-Dam, Two-Dam, Three-Dam, Fordham!". The Jesuit fathers felt that it sounded "too ungentlemanly" and came up with "Ram" to replace "Dam". The "Rams" nickname became the official nickname after alumnus J. Ignatius Coveney composed the university fight song "The Fordham Ram" in 1906.[37]
Ramses the Ram
The mascot is Ramses the Ram. Initially the university had a live ram but it has been replaced by a student wearing a ram costume.
From the 1920's onwards, Fordham had kept a live bighorn sheep on campus, each of whom were named Ramses and numbered accordingly. However, the rams were often the victims of kidnapping schemes by students from rival institutions before football games or other big match-ups, especially by nearby fellow Catholic institution and long-time athletic rivals Manhattan College. Rameses XIX made the local news when Manhattan College students kidnapped him, dyed him green (Manhattan College colors) and left him in front of the Madison Square Garden Circus. Ramses XXVIII was the last live mascot and had to be put down in 1978 due to gangrene caused by an injury. The university has never had a live mascot since then.[38]
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