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With the 2020 fall sports season canceled by the COVID-19 outbreak, we at Fordham have decided to dig back through our archives and provide our fans with content on some of the outstanding teams and student-athletes who have graced Rose Hill over the years.
October 31, 1992 – (Lewisburg, Pa.) – On Halloween afternoon the Fordham football Rams pulled some tricks out of their bag to pick up their first-ever Patriot League win with a 21-0 blanking of Bucknell University at Christy Mathewson Stadium.
Brad Jordan
The win snapped a 12-game losing streak for the Rams who recorded their first shutout since November of 1988 (30 games ago).
The Fordham defense led the way, holding the Bison to just four first downs in the game and 107 total yards of offense while forcing multiple Bucknell turnovers, including a pair of Brad Jordan interceptions. His first pick was just three plays into the game, giving the Rams the ball on the Bucknell 39. Six plays later, a one-yard Chris Ross touchdown run gave the Rams a 7-0 lead.
The Rams went up 14-0 midway through the second quarter on a 27-yard touchdown run by senior Scott Helverson.
The Fordham special teams and defense set up the final score as a Steve Muzzonigro pinned Bucknell on its own one and the Fordham defense allowed the Bison to gain one yard before punting the ball back to the Rams.
Taking over on its own 25, Fordham made quick work on the drive, with quarterback John Pohlman plunging in from the one to put the Rams up 21-0.
Late in the third, Jordan picked off another Bison pass to stop a scoring chance for Bucknell. Jordan would be named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week for his exploits.
October 31, 2009 – (Bronx, N.Y.) –
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Photo Gallery - If you are a fan of offense, Jack Coffey Field was the place to be on Saturday afternoon where two of the top six offenses in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) squared off. The participants in the Patriot League game were the host Fordham Rams, who entered ranked third in total offense, and the visiting Holy Cross Crusaders, who came into the contest ranked sixth. The two teams didn't disappoint, combining for more than 1,000 yards of offense, but it was Holy Cross who put up the bigger number where it mattered, defeating Fordham 41-27 and retaining possession of the Ram-Crusader Cup for the second straight year.
The biggest numbers of the day belonged to Fordham quarterback John Skelton, who completed 43 of 67 passes for 427 yards, all school records. He finished one passing attempt shy of the NCAA FCS record for most pass attempts in a game without an interception, just missing the national mark of 68 set by Marshall's Tony Petersen against Western Carolina in 1987 (Paterson completed 34). Skelton surpassed his own school record of 420 passing yards in a game, which he set earlier this year at Cornell, while he broke Matt Georgia's 1999 records of 36 completions and 65 attempts.
The loneliest players at the game were the two punters, as neither attempted a punt on the day. Fordham punter Patrick Murray did line up for a punt in the fourth quarter but the Rams executed a fake, picking up the first down. It was only the second game in NCAA FCS history in which neither team attempted a punt. The other time it occurred was in a game between Georgia Southern and James Madison in 1986. The last time one NCAA FCS team didn't punt in a game was Georgia Southern in 2004.
October 31, 1987 – (Bronx, N.Y.) – After winning the 1987 Metropolitan and MAAC Championship, the Fordham women's cross country team picked up its third championship of the season, taking first at the Collegiate Track Conference (CTC) Championship, held at Van Cortlandt Park.
Fordham scored 36 points for the first place finish out of 20 teams, as four Rams were in the top eight individually. Saint Joseph's took second with 55 points, followed by Manhattan (90), Southern Connecticut (165), La Salle (166), LIU (174) and Montclair St. (174) to round out the top seven teams.
Other teams competing were Trenton St. (191), Wagner (247), Fairleigh Dickinson (265), Glassboro (310), Queens (315), Seton Hall (337), Saint Peter's (348), Philadelphia Textile (467), CW Post (Inc.), Hunter (Inc.), NYU (Inc.), NYIT (Inc.), and Stony Brook (Inc.).
Individually, Fordham's Jeanine Radice won the race for the individual title in a time of 18:17.6, 12 seconds ahead of second place finisher. Patti Nelson was the next Ram across the line in sixth overall at 18:50.0, quickly followed by Kelly Gallivan (18:56.8) and Maureen Paonessa (19:01.3) in seventh and eighth place, respectively.
Nancy Gunning came in next for Fordham in 14
th at 19:22.0 with Erin O'Connell (16
th – 19:28.7), Kelly Brown (17
th – 19:32.2), Patti Quinn (29
th – 20:30.1), Leslie Fisher (95
th – 23:42.5), and Chris McGoey (107
th – 24:43.6) also competing.
On the men's side, Fordham came in second place with a score of 52 points, behind only La Salle with 39 points.
Fordham's top finisher was Pat Lavery, who clocked in at 25:24.7, good for third place overall. Juan Collado was the next Ram across the finish line in sixth place at 25:45.6, followed by Sandy Sabatino in 10
th place at 26:06.5. Tim Condon was 16
th for Fordham at 26:24.2 with Artie Ferreira in 22
nd (26:41.8).
