Fordham Football Retails All Cups

Fordham University Football traveled to Worester, Massachusetts this weekend to take on a good Holy Cross team that gave a dog fight last year. 

Last year, Holy Cross went up early on the Rams leading them 17-0 going into halftime. But Fordham Head coach , Joe Moorhead always preaches when the tough gets going , real players show what they're made of and rely on their fundamentals and effort. 

Fordham came out of the lockeroom with high energy and brought the score within a touchdown. The defense made a couple of great stops, that including a crucial interception by Senior Levon Williams. 

Fordham's offense came out and took the team home, lead by Senior Qb Mike Nebrich. 

September 27th 2014, the Rams came out with lots of energy driving the ball, but had to settle for a field goal. 

The defense made back to back three and outs and help the office create some buzz and begin to run up the score board going in to halftime with the lead 17-3. 

Coming out of the half, Fordham's high powered offense scored 14, and the defense throttled Holy Cross only allowing a score. Fordham's offense led by freshman sensation Chase Edmonds and sophomore workhorse Kendall Pearcy they pounded the ball and would help set up two more Nebrich touchdowns to Sr Brian Wetzel, Sr Marcus Jones who stepped in for Senior All American WR Sam Ajala , Sr Dan Light and Nebrich taking one in himself. 

This wasn't the Rams best game on an execution level, but it was a great way to open league play and earn the first Patriot League game since 2009, due to conference sanctions. They were given sanctions because Fordham was the first to award full scholarships to their athletes which came with a huge price. Fordham was ineligible for a Patriot League title until this season. 

Consequently, Fordham had to battle tough non-conference games for 4 years and try to win out year after year before reaching the quarter finals of the FCS Playoffs this past year. 

With the win this past weekend, Fordham Football has now retained all rivalry cup games, that being "The Liberty  & Ram -Crusader Cup"

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Farewell to Captain

Its beyond redundant to address how good of a player Derek Jeter is and was at his prime era throughout Major League Baseball. 

Derek Jeter, drafted straight out of high school as a young stud, making his debut in 1995 , now 40 years old, announced earlier this year via Facebook, that this would be his final season and sent Yankees' fans and the sports world into a media frenzy and a bit of a whirlwind. For the Yankees Organization, Derek Jeter has been one of their most consistent and most influential players to ever set foot on the diamond. In his 20 MLB seasons, Jeter is the all-time leader in hits, stolen bases, at bats and the number of total games played. 

In the majority public opinion, the word accolade is a small way to describe his lifetime career achievements. His honors include  five Gold Glove Awards, five Silver Slugger Awards, two Hank Aaron Awards, 14 All Star Selections and a Roberto Clemente Award. Jeter is also the all-time MLB leader in hits by a shortstop, and the 28th player to reach 3,000 hits. 

With the mixture of a bunch of injuries and off the field personal reasons, Jeter has decided to call it quits. After resigning for a 1-yr $12-million dollar contract and recording his 1,000 multiple hit game, which only 3 others have done, also becoming the oldest player to have two or more hits in an All-Star Game. 

Tonight marks the finale to a great and extremely successful career from an individual that made it his goal to greatly effect an organization. Jeter, is a man embarked on character and integrity on and off the field; he's a great performer on the field and an even bigger one on off. 

In an interview done with Mens Health , the future Hall of Famer, expressed that "Obviously, you're known for what you do," says Jeter. "But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about."--

The farewell to "Captain" will take place tonight and will have a guaranteed standing ovation, with some smiles, tears and waves of emotion to a great player in that of Derek Jeter. 

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Fordham Football Honors With Another Win

NY, it's not really a state known for football, besides large powerhouses like Syracuse, Buffalo, and Hofstra but there's a couple of collegiate local teams that have had a great standing tradition to honor and commemorate a great cause, not only for the sake of a cross-city rivalry but on a national level. 

Despite the proximity and long football histories, Fordham and Columbia only met three times in the 100 years from 1890 until 1991 (1890, 1902, and a Division III Fordham team was fielded in 1972), with Columbia shutting out Fordham each time. However, for 35 of those years the Rams did not have a Division 1 team to field against the Lions. 

Fordham withdrew its football program in 1954 citing financial issues, until 1970 when it was re-introduced at the Division III level. Fordham didnt play D1 football again until 1989. Fordham won the fourth meeting, in 1991, 20-16.

"The Liberty Cup"

The origin of the "Liberty Cup" was established by Columbia University and Fordham University after the 10th meeting of the teams. The game followed the devastating attacks of September 11th in New York City. 

Multiple schools cancelled their games that weekend, but Fordham and Columbia wanted to express a great American feeling of resilience and toughness. The schools decided against playing on Sept. 15, but later in the season agreed to meet on Thanksgiving Day (November 22, 2001). Fordham thumped Columbia 41-10 before a sold out  crowd of 7,000 fans. 

Fordham and Columbia have played yearly since 2000. The Liberty Cup game now opens Columbia's season; it's usually the third game on Fordham's schedule. As of the 2014 meeting, Fordham leads the series 9-4.

September 20th 2014, Fordham got after Columbia again with a dominate 49-7 victory, which handed Columbia its first loss of its 2014-15 season. 

For Fordham, the offense usually creates headlines in the past matches but this time defense showed what it's really capable of. Fordham's defense stoned Columbia, holding them  to just 165 yards of total offense, which 82 of those coming in the fourth quarter, and nine total first downs. Columbia made it past the 50 yard line once  in the first 57:30 before going on a late scoring drive to prevent the shutout by Fordham. 

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