Football Travels to Bucknell on Friday Night

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Bronx, N.Y. (November 6, 2014) -  The Fordham University football Rams will continue their 2014 Patriot League season as they travel to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to face the Bucknell University Bison in Christy Mathewson Stadium on Friday, November 7, at 6:30 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network Jason Knapp (p-b-p), Randy Cross (color) and Melanie Collins announcing. The game will also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUV.org with Mike Watts (p-b-p), Nick Logerfo (color) and DJ Sixsmith (sideline) handling the announcing chores.
 
#9 Fordham, 8-1 on the year and 4-0 in the Patriot League, enters the game after a 37-13 Patriot League win over Colgate on Jack Coffey Field last Saturday. Bucknell, 7-1 overall this season and 3-0 in the conference, enters the contest after a 27-24 overtime conference win over Lafayette in Lewisburg last week.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
Joining captains Stephen Hodge, Dan Light and Ian Williams will be Fordham game captains Joseph Mizera (offense), Brett Biestek (defense) and Michael Marando (special teams)
 
The scout team players of the week were announced following practice on Wednesday: Kyvaune Brammer (offense), Nick Krejci (defense) and Roddy Roche (special teams)
 
The Rams can clinch at least a share of the Patriot League title with a win on Friday. It would be the second time the Rams have clinched a league championships at Bucknell (2002)
 
This will be the 30^th meeting between Fordham and Bucknell on the gridiron with the Bison leading the all-time series, which started in 1929, 18-11
 
Fordham won last year's matchup, 23-21, on Jack Coffey Field on November 9 as Peter Maetzold completed 21 of 35 passes for 318 yards and one touchdown and the Rams blocked a last second Bucknell field goal
 
Fordham freshman running back Chase Edmonds is second in the NCAA FCS in all-purpose yards/game, averaging 193.0 yards/game in nine games this year, while also ranking second in the FCS in rushing yards/game (146.9), rushing yards (1,322) and rushing touchdowns (18).