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10/24/2025 5:46:00 PM


Rams battle undefeated Mountain Hawks on SNY and ESPN+


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BRONX, N.Y. –  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2025 Patriot League season, Fordham’s 125th varsity season, by hosting the seventh-ranked Lehigh University Mountain Hawks at Moglia Stadium on Saturday, October 25, at 1:00 p.m. as part of Family Weekend 2025.
 
The game will be broadcast live on SNY, streamed live on ESPN+ with Andrew Bogusch (p-b-p) and Andrew Posadas (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the WFUV YouTube channel with Chris Carrino (p-b-p) and Brendan Shorey (analyst) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 1-6 record, 1-2 in the Patriot League, and is coming off a 30-13 loss to Dartmouth at Moglia Stadium last Saturday while Lehigh enters with a perfect 7-0 overall record, 2-0 in the Patriot League following a 31-7 win at Columbia last Saturday.
 
Saturday’s game will be the 37th meeting between Fordham and Lehigh on the gridiron. The Mountain Hawks lead the all-time series, which started in 1923, 26-10. Lehigh took last year’s meeting, 33-19, in Bethlehem, on October 26 as Jaden Green rushed 167 times for 147 yards and one score.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• Fordham grad student linebacker James Conway was named one of 16 finalists for the 2025 William V. Campbell Trophy®, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award that annually recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance, and exemplary leadership
 
• Conway has 539 career stops for Conway the most for an active NCAA Division I student-athlete and eleven shy of the NCAA FCS career record of 550 set by Boomer Grigsby (Illinois State).
 
• Conway leads all NCAA Division I tacklers with 103 on the season.
 
• Fordham junior quarterback Gunnar Smith is enjoying a successful first season for the Rams.
 
• Smith has completed 154 of 264 passes for 1,756 yards and ten touchdowns.
 
• He leads the Patriot League and is eleventh in the NCAA FCS in passing yards/game (250.9) and is third in the conference and 40th in the nation in points responsible for per game (11.4).
 
• In three-plus years, grad student punter Will Haslett has punted 181 times, seventh on the all-time list, for 7,727 yards, fourth on the Rams’ career list.
 
• Fordham is represented by five captains in 2025: senior tight end Jaden Allen, grad student linebacker James Conway, senior defensive back Alex Kemper, senior offensive linemen Duke Leonard, and senior defensive lineman Claudy Robinson.