Football Travels to Lafayette on Saturday

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Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham University football Rams continue their 2015 season and start their Patriot League title defense by traveling to Easton, Pa., to face the Lafayette College Leopards in Fisher Stadium on Saturday, October 3, at 6:00 p.m.  
 
The game will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network and can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUVsports.org with Matt Moro (p-b-p), Kristian O'Hara (color) and Drew Casey (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
#13/15 Fordham, the 2014 Patriot League champions, enters the game with a 3-1 record after a 54-31 win over Monmouth on Jack Coffey Field last Saturday. Lafayette enters the game with a 1-3 record after a 35-24 win at Wagner College on Saturday.
 
This will be the 34th meeting between Fordham and Lafayette on the gridiron. The Leopards lead the all-time series, which started in 1903, 22-10-1, but Fordham took last year's game, 42-18, on Jack Coffey Field on October 3 as Mike Nebrich completed 23 of 32 passes for 287 yards and three touchdowns while Chase Edmonds rushed 25 times for 187 yards and two scores. The Rams have won two of the past three meet­ings.
 
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: Tristan Nevotne (offense for defense), Brett Lambert (defense for the offense) and James Orfini (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.
 
No New York area football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 32 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 23 and the Jets 20.
 
Junior quarterback Kevin Anderson was named the Corvias Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and College Sports Madness Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week following the Monmouth game while junior placekicker Makay Redd earned Patriot League Special Teams Player of the Week accolades.

Despite having played in only 18 career games, sophomore running back Chase Edmonds is already in the top eight on the Fordham career rushing yards and rushing touchdown lists. Edmonds's 95 rushing yards last week against Columbia brings his career total to 2,258, eighth on the Fordham career rushing list while his rushing touchdown gives him five on the year and 28 in his career, fourth most in school history.