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BRONX, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2023 season, Fordham's 123rd varsity season, by hosting the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks for a Patriot League game at Moglia Stadium at Jack Coffey Field on Saturday, October 7, at 1:00 p.m. The game will be presented by Ridgewood Savings Bank and MichaelAngelo's Restaurant.
 
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The game will mark the official dedication of Moglia Stadium at Jack Coffey Field with a pregame ceremony honoring Joe Moglia, FCRH '71, an award-winning football coach and transformational business executive, who is just the fourth alumnus to be honored with the Fordham Founder's Award as well as induction into Fordham's Hall of Honor and its Athletics Hall of Fame. He is also a member of Fordham Prep's Hall of Honor and Football Hall of Fame, and received an honorary doctorate from the University in 2009.
 
The game will be broadcast live on SNY and streamed on ESPN+ with Connell McShane (p-b-p) and Grant DelVecchio (color) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Lou Orlando (p-b-p) and Brian Rabacs (color) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters with a 3-2 overall record, 0-1 in the Patriot League, and is coming off a 28-24 League loss at Georgetown last Saturday, while Lehigh enters its Patriot League opener 1-4 on the year after a 49-7 loss at Monmouth last week.
 
This will be the 35th meeting between Fordham and Lehigh on the gridiron with the Mountain Hawks lead the all-time series, which started in 1923, 25-9. Fordham has taken the past two meetings, including a 40-28 win at Lehigh last year on October 8 as Tim DeMorat completed 26 of 37 passes for 499 yards and four touchdowns with MJ Wright catching four passes for a career-high 229 yards and two scores.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• The Fordham Rams have thrown the most touchdown passes of any NCAA FCS school over the past two years.
 
• The Rams threw a school-record 58 scoring strikes last year (56 of those from Tim DeMorat who set a school and Patriot League record) and have 16 from quarterback CJ Montes this year for a total of 74.
 
• Fordham sophomore quarterback CJ Montes has thrown 16 touchdown passes in his first five games as the Ram starting quarterback, the most for any Fordham signal caller over his first five starts.
 
• Fordham grad student wide receiver MJ Wright has 146 career receptions for 2,309 yards and 18 touchdowns. He is tied for eighth in career receiving scores, is tenth in career receiving yards, and 12th in career receptions.
 
• Fordham senior placekicker Brandon Peskin has made good on 93 career PATs, good for third on the Fordham all-time PAT list.
 
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway has 304 total tackles, sixth on the Fordham career list.
 
• Over the past two years, the Rams are 10-2 at Moglia Stadium.
 
• The 44-0 win over Stonehill on September 23 was Fordham's first shutout since a 55-0 blanking of Lock Haven on August 30, 2012.
 
• It was the first shutout of a Division I opponent since a 17-0 win over Georgetown on November 15, 2008.
 
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway and graduate student wide receiver MJ Wright were named 2023 NCAA FCS Preseason All-Americans.
 
• Both were named Third Team Preseason All-America by Stats Perform and to the Phil Steele FCS Preseason All-America Team.
 
• Wright was also named Preseason All-American by The Bluebloods while Conway was placed on the HERO Sports Top 25 Returning Linebackers list.
 
• The Fordham captains for 2023 are grad student offensive linemen Ryan Joyce and Lucas Portes, grad student wide receiver MJ Wright, grad student defensive back Stephen Williams II, and grad student defensive lineman Alfonzo Dixon.
 
• No New York area college football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 76 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Sacred Heart (65), Stony Brook (59), and Rutgers (49), while the NFL's Giants lead all NYC area professional teams with 72 wins over the past eleven years and the Jets have 62.