Football Hosts Penn for Homecoming on Saturday

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Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham University football Rams continue their 2016 home season, the 116th varsity season at Rose Hill, by playing host to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on Jack Coffey Field on Saturday, September 24, at 1:00 p.m. as part of Homecoming 2016. The game will be sponsored by Army ROTC.
 
The game will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUVsports.org with Drew Casey (p-b-p), Joe Marie (color) and Corey Miller (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 1-1 record after a record-setting 83-21 win over Elizabeth City State University on September 10 while Penn is 0-1 on the young season after opening with a 49-28 loss to Lehigh in Philadelphia last Saturday.
 
This will be the eighth meeting between Fordham and Penn on the gridiron with the Quakers leading the series, 5-2. Fordham has taken the past two matchups, including a 48-45 win last year on Franklin Field on October 10, as Makay Redd nailed a 31-yard field goal with eight seconds left.
 
Coach To Cure MD
For the ninth year in a row, college football coaches nationwide will join together in support of the Coach To Cure MD program, which will be held during games of Saturday, September 24, 2016. The annual effort has raised more than a $1.2 million to battle Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne).
 
On the weekend of September 24th, the Fordham football coaches and most American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) members will wear a Coach To Cure MD logo patch on the sidelines and college football fans will be asked to donate to research projects supported by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the largest, most comprehensive nonprofit organization in the U.S. focused entirely on Duchenne. The Rams will also recognize the Frank family, whose son Kevin suffers from Duchenne. Kevin and his family will join the Rams for the coin toss on the field.
 
Football fans can help support the fight to end Duchenne by either going online to www.CoachtoCureMD.org or by texting the word CURE to 90999 (a $5 donation will automatically be added to your next phone bill).
 
A few notes on the game:
 
Senior linebacker George Dawson and senior punter Joe Pavlik have appeared in every game at Fordham since arriving as freshmen in 2013 (42 games). They are looking to become the Fordham career leaders in games played. The currently record is 47, set by Javarus Dudley (2000-03) and matched by Joe Sullivan (2011-14).
 
The Fordham captains will be Kevin Anderson, George Dawson and Joe Pavlik.
 
The scout team players of the week were announced following practice on Thursday: Roddy Roche (offense for defense), Kyle Cook (defense for the offense) and Andrew Prince (special teams).
 
No New York area football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 39 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Sacred Heart, who has 30 wins over that period, and Rutgers with 29, while the NFL's Giants have 29 and the Jets 28.
 
Junior running back Chase Edmonds is already second on the Fordham career rushing yards and career rushing touchdown lists. He needs 906 rushing yards to tie Kirwin Watson's career rushing record of 4,617 yards and four rushing scores to tie Watson's career mark of 48.
 
Senior quarterback Kevin Anderson threw for 3,183 yards last year, the fourth best single season in school history, in his first year as a starter. His 527 passing yards so far in 2016 brings his career mark to 3,710, eighth best in school history.