Football Travels to Penn on Saturday

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Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham University football Rams continue their 2015 season as they travel to Philadelphia for their final non-conference contest of the season as they face the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on Franklin Field on Saturday, October 10, at 1:00 p.m.  
 
The game will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network and can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUVsports.org with Drew Casey (p-b-p), Kristian O'Hara (color) and Matt Moro (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
#12/13 Fordham, the 2014 Patriot League champions, enters the game with a 4-1 record after a 35-7 Patriot League win at Lafayette last Saturday. Penn enters the game with a 1-2 record after a 41-20 Ivy League loss to Dartmouth at Franklin Field on Saturday.
 
This will be the seventh meeting between Fordham and Penn on the gridiron with the Quakers leading the series, 5-1. The series started with a 13-10 Penn win in 1992 but Fordham took last year's meeting, 60-22, on Jack Coffey Field on October 11, as Mike Nebrich completed 36 of 47 passes for a school-record 566 yards and six touchdowns.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
The Fordham captains will be Kevin Anderson, George Dawson, Stephen Hodge and Garrick Mayweather, Jr.
 
The scout team players of the week were announced following practice on Thursday: Andrew Prince (offense for defense), Nick Zawisha (defense for the offense) and Cory Kopicki (special teams).
 
The Fordham is one of three NCAA FCS teams to have two wins over an FBS opponent since 2013, joining North Dakota State and Bethune-Cookman. The Rams are also one of six NCAA FCS teams to have a win over an NCAA FBS school in 2015.
 
The Rams have now been ranked in the top 25 for 34 straight weeks.
 
Fordham has won its last seven matchups with Ivy League opponents.
 
No New York area football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 33 victories over that stretch. The closest competitor is Rutgers, who has 25 wins over the past three-plus years while the NFL's Giants (who play more games in a season than the Rams) have 24 and the Jets 21.
 
Sophomore running back Chase Edmonds was named Corvias Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week as well as College Sports Madness Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and a HERO Sports Offensive Stud of the Week following the Lafayette game. He rushed 30 times for a career-high 234 yards, scoring twice, the first on a 67-yard run on the final play of the first quarter to give the Rams a 14-7 lead and then on a one-yard rush in the third quar­ter.
 
Despite having played in only 18 career games, sophomore running back Chase Edmonds is already in the top six on the Fordham career rushing yards and rushing touchdown lists. Edmonds's 234 rushing yards last week against Lafayette brings his career total to 2,492, sixth on the Fordham career rushing list while his two rushing touchdowns gives him seven on the year and 30 in his career, third most in school history.