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Rams return to action off open week
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BRONX, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the 2024 season, Fordham’s 124th varsity season, by traveling to Bethlehem, Pa., to take on the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks for a Patriot League contest at Goodman Stadium on Saturday, October 26, 12:00 p.m.
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Marco Socci (p-b-p) and Jim Guzzo (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Lou Orlando (p-b-p) and Evan Harkin (analyst) handling the announcing chores.
Fordham enters the game with an 0-7 overall, 0-2 in the Patriot League, after a 19-16 Patriot League loss at Holy Cross on October 12, while Lehigh enters the contest with a 3-3 overall record, 0-1 in the Patriot League, after a 38-23 loss at Yale last Saturday.
Saturday’s game will be the 36th meeting between Fordham and Lehigh on the gridiron. The Mountain Hawks lead the all-time series, which started in 1923, 25-10. Fordham has taken the past three meetings, including a 38-35 win at Moglia Stadium last October as Brandon Peskin connected on a 45-yard field goal, his third of the game, as time expired to lead the Rams to the Homecoming win.
A few notes on the game:
• This will be Fordham’s second straight game on natural grass.
• The Fordham Rams have thrown the second most touchdown passes of any NCAA FCS school over the past three years.
• The Rams threw a school-record 58 scoring strikes in 2022 (56 of those from Tim DeMorat who set a school and Patriot League record), had 26 from quarterback CJ Montes last year, and have four this year for a total of 88.
• The 2024 Fordham football squad will play four of its first five, and five of the first seven, games on the road.
• The last time the Rams played four of the first five games on the road was 2011.
• Fordham senior linebacker James Conway has 413 total tackles, second on the Fordham career list. He is just 12 tackles shy of Ryan Greenhagen‘s Fordham career record..
• Fordham senior running back Julius Loughridge, who has rushed for more than 100 yards in two of his three games of 2024, has 2,618 career rushing yards, seventh on the Fordham all-time rushing list.
• Loughridge also has 23 career rushing touchdowns, ninth all-time for the Rams.
• Grad student defensive back Nahil Perkins is tied for third in the NCAA FCS in passes defended, averaging 1.7/game.
• Fordham senior linebacker James Conway, senior defensive lineman Matt Jaworski, and junior quarterback CJ Montes were named 2024 Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Team.
• Fordham is represented by six captains in 2024: senior defensive lineman Matt Jaworski, grad student wide receiver Mekai Felton, grad student offensive linemen Ryan Joyce (who is serving as a captain for the second straight year), grad student defensive back Nahil Perkins, and grad student linebacker Mike Courtney.
• Two former Fordham football Rams are currently on NFL rosters. Running back Chase Edmonds, who was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2018 draft, is a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but will miss the 2024 season due to injury while offensive lineman Nick Zakelj, who was selected in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL draft by the San Francisco and enters his third year with the 49ers.
