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The Fordham Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Fordham University, located in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Patriot League .
The 2024 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 7th-year head coach Joe Conlin , and played their home games at Coffey Field in The Bronx .
It is the Fordham Rams' home for football, men's and women's soccer, and baseball. The facility opened for baseball 94 years ago in 1930, and was named in 1954 for baseball coach and longtime athletic director Jack Coffey , four years before his 1958 retirement.
Fordham, which had previously suspended football during the 1943-1945 seasons due to World War II, dropped the program entirely following the 1954 season. Students brought the sport back as a club team in 1964. The university again granted varsity status in 1970. The program played at the D-III level until finally regaining Division I status in ...
Fordham has dropped their football program on several different occasions. Fordham first dropped football between 1894–95, and then again between 1910–11, 1919, and 1943-45. [ 18 ] On December 15, 1954, Fordham scratched its football program for the fifth time, for various reasons, mainly financial.
The "Iron Major” spent three seasons as head coach of Holy Cross (1903-1905) where he had a 19–10–2 record, and six at Fordham (1927-1932) where he had a 34–14–4 record and also elevated the program to college football's highest level.
This is a list of Fordham Rams in the NFL Draft. In total the Rams have had 29 players in the NFL Draft. John Skelton is the third most recent draftee.
The 2022 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season.Led by fifth-year head coach Joe Conlin, the Rams compiled an overall record of 9–3 with a mark of 5–1 in conference play, placing second in the Patriot League.