Football Travels to #1 New Hampshire for NCAA FCS Championship Game on Saturday

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Bronx, N.Y. (December 5, 2014) -  The Fordham University football Rams continue the 2014 NCAA FCS Championships as they travel to Durham, N.H., to face the top-ranked University of New Hampshire Wildcats in Cowell Stadium on Saturday, December 6, at 1:00 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3 with Bob Picozzi (p-b-p) and Matt Chatham (color) 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 (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
#9/12 Fordham, 11-2 overall, enters the game after a 44-22 first round NCAA FCS Championships win over Sacred Heart on Jack Coffey Field last Saturday. #1/1 New Hampshire enters the game with a 10-1 overall record after closing out the regular season with a 20-12 win at Mine on November 22.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
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Joining captains Stephen Hodge, Dan Light and Ian Williams will be the game captain Matt Stolte (offense), Austin Hancock (defense) and Michael Marando (special teams).
 
The scout team players of the week were announced following practice on Thursday: Kyvaune Brammer (offense), Jonathan Dimon (defense) and Luke Arlotto (special teams)
 
This will be the first meeting between Fordham and New Hampshire on the gridiron
 
Brett Biestek and Dan Light were honored this week by being named Academic All-America®. Biestek was named first team for the second straight year while Light was named to the second team
 
Freshman running back Chase Edmonds has made an immediate impact for the Rams ground game, setting school marks for most rushing yards (1,630) and rushing touchdowns (22) in a season.  The former rushing yards record was 1,596 set by Carlton Koonce in 2012 while the former rushing touchdowns mark was 20 set by Kirwin Watson in 2003.
 
As a team, the 2014 Rams have scored 40 points or more in nine games and have scored 550 points on the year, surpassing last year's school record of 526. With Edmonds leading the way, the Rams have also set a new team single season record with 2,184, bettering the former mark of 2,162 set last year.
 
The 2014 Patriot League title is the culmination of four years of hard work for the Fordham senior class, who went 1-10 as freshmen back in 2011. But Joe Moorhead was hired as head coach following that season and brought with him a new mindset which the players bought into and the Rams are now reaping the rewards of their diligence, going 23-4 over the past two years with back-to-back NCAA FCS Championship appearances