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Bronx, N.Y. (October 18, 2013) - The Fordham University football Rams, ranked eighth in the latest NCAA FCS Coaches and Sports Network NCAA FCS polls, continue their 2013 season as they travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to face the Yale University Bulldogs in their final non-conference game of the season in the Yale Bowl on Saturday, October 19, at 12:00 p.m.
 
The game can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUV.org with
Mike Watts and Nick Logerfo handling the announcing chores and Chris Marasco on the sidelines.
 
The Rams (7-0) enter the game after a 34-12 win at Georgetown University last Saturday, while Yale (3-1) enters the contest after falling to Dartmouth, 20-13, in Hanover, New Hampshire, last week.
 
The Rams, who are looking to go to 8-0 for the first time in school history, will be led into the game by junior quarterback Mike Nebrich, the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, who completed 35 of 45 passes for a career-high 405 yards and a touchdown and also rushed 12 times for 51 net yards and one score at Georgetown. The 400-yard passing game is just the ninth in Fordham history as Nebrich joins John Skelton (4), Ryan Higgins (2), Gary Brennan (1) and current head coach Joe Moorhead (1) in recording 400-yard games as a Ram. The 405 passing yards brings Nebrich's season total to 2,166, the tenth best single season in school history while his 190 completions so far is already ninth best.
 
Nebrich completed his first 20 pass attempts in the game, setting a Patriot League record for most consecutive completions and tying the NCAA FCS record for most consecutive completions to open a game. The former Patriot League record was 18, set by Bucknell's Scott Auchenbach in 1989, while Austin Moherman of Missouri State set the NCAA FCS record in 2000 and it was matched by Brown's Kyle Slager in 2002.
 
Defensively, junior linebacker Stephen Hodge, the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week who leads the 2013 Rams in tackles, recorded a career-high 14 tackles in the win at Georgetown, ten solo, including one sack. He led a Fordham defense that limited the Hoyas to just 293 yards of total offense and surrendered just one touchdown, which came with less than two minutes left in the game.
 
This will be the seventh meeting between Fordham and Yale on the gridiron with the Bulldogs leading the all-time series, which started in 1950, 5-1. Yale won the most recent matchup, 7-6, in the Yale Bowl on October 16, 2010, while Fordham's win in the series came in 2008 when the Rams upended the Bulldogs, 12-10, on Jack Coffey Field. Fordham is 22-48 all-time against Ivy League schools, 18-41 on the NCAA FCS level, but have taken three straight from Ivy League opponents (Columbia and Cornell in 2011 and Columbia earlier this year).