{"id":121228,"date":"2025-09-05T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:39:10","slug":"football-opens-home-season-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121228\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Opens Home Season on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Football&#13;<br \/>\n                        9\/5\/2025 12:56:00 PM&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                Rams host Monmouth at 6 PM&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/player\/_\/id\/cd05d8ed-906a-4de0-8cb5-355e06005d00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WFUVSports\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sidearmstats\/football\/summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stats<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/documents\/2025\/9\/3\/Fordham_FB_Notes_-_Monmouth_game.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fordham Game Notes<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FORDHAMFOOTBALL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/publogix.com\/e\/25-FORDMGBGD1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Game Program<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBRONX, N.Y. &#8211;\u00a0 The Fordham University Football Rams open their 2025 home schedule, Fordham&#8217;s 125th varsity season, by hosting the #18\/21 Monmouth University Hawks at Moglia Stadium on Saturday, September 6, at 6:00 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be televised live on ESPN+ with Andrew Bogusch (p-b-p) and Andrew Posadas (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WFUVSports\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFUV YouTube channel<\/a> with Tucker Austin (p-b-p) and Chris Carrino (analyst) handling the announcing chores.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFordham enters the game after a season opening loss at Boston College last Saturday while Monmouth enters the game coming off a 42-39 win at Colgate last Friday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Saturday&#8217;s game will be the seventh meeting between Fordham and Monmouth on the gridiron. The Hawks lead the all-time series, 4-2, including a win in last year&#8217;s game at Monmouth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA few notes on the game:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham grad student linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/james-conway\/14344\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14344\" target=\"_blank\">James Conway<\/a> has 453 total tackles, a new Fordham and Patriot League career record.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 The 453 career stops for Conway are the most for an active NCAA Division I student-athlete.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Conway was named a 2025 First Team Stats Perform All-American as well as being named preseason All-Patriot League.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham grad student punter <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/will-haslett\/14359\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14359\" target=\"_blank\">Will Haslett<\/a> was named to the Preseason Watch List for the 2025 FCS Punter of the Year\u00a0Award, which honors the nation&#8217;s top collegiate punter in the Football Championship Series (FCS).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 In three-plus years, Haslett has punted 149 times, ninth on the all-time list, for 6,439 yards, seventh on the Rams&#8217; career list.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Sophomore kicker <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/bennett-henderson\/14360\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14360\" target=\"_blank\">Bennett Henderson<\/a> converted his last eight field goal attempts of 2024, three of those for more than 40 yards, and he connected on his lone three-pointer in the opener at Boston College.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham will be represented by five captains in 2025: senior tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/jaden-allen\/14335\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14335\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Allen<\/a>, grad student linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/james-conway\/14344\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14344\" target=\"_blank\">James Conway<\/a>, senior defensive back <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/alex-kemper\/14372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14372\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kemper<\/a>, senior\u00a0 offensive linemen <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/duke-leonard\/14376\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14376\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Leonard<\/a>, and senior defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/claudy-robinson\/14400\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14400\" target=\"_blank\">Claudy Robinson<\/a>.<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Football&#13; 9\/5\/2025 12:56:00 PM&#13; &#13; &#13; Rams host Monmouth at 6 PM&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-121228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}