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The 22 Fordham University varsity sports teams are known as the Fordham Rams . Their colors are maroon and white. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for all sports except football. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural sports program. The University's athletic booster clubs include the Sixth Man Club for basketball and the Twelfth Man Club for football, as well as the Afterguard for sailing.

Fordham University sports, though not part of the Ivy League, has nevertheless been credited with inspiring the term by comparison. The first usage of "Ivy" in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895-1965). In an article that appeared in the ''New York Tribune'' on October 14, 1933, Woodward, referencing American football|football, wrote

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According to the book "Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins"(1988) , author William Morris writes that Stanley Woodward actually took the term from fellow New York Tribune sportswriter Caswell Adams. Morris writes that during the 1930s, the Fordham University football team was running roughshod over all its opponents. One day in the sports room at the Tribune , the merits of Fordham's football team was being compared to Princeton and Columbia. Adams remarked disparagingly of the latter two, saying they were "only Ivy League." Woodward, the sports editor of the Tribune , picked up the term and printed it the next day.

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Varsity

History

First recognized as a sport at St. John's College in 1882, Fordham in its hey-day has played before sellout crowds at the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium. In the mid-1930s, Fordham boasted what might have been the greatest offensive and defensive line in college history—the "Seven Blocks of Granite". Tackle Ed Franco was a consensus All-American. So was center Alex Wojciechowicz who later became an All-Pro with Detroit and Philadelphia. Guard Vince Lombardi later became one of the greatest of pro coaches. In 1937, the team went undefeated and was ranked number three nationally. So popular was Fordham, that the Cleveland NFL franchise formed in the '30s took its nickname from the Rams of the Bronx. The Cleveland Rams later moved to Los Angeles and then to St. Louis, Missouri, and are now known as the St. Louis Rams.

On September 30, 1939, Fordham participated in the world’s first televised football game. In front of the sport’s first live TV audience, the Rams defeated Waynesburg College, 34-7. The following week they lost the second ever televised game to the University of Alabama, 7-6. It was not for another month that a professional NFL game was televised.

On December 15 1954, Fordham scratched its football program for various reasons, mainly financial. A club football team was established in 1964 (on shaky authority) and football was re-established as a varsity sport in 1970, but in Division III. Fordham joined what is now the NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision in 1989.

With 722 all-time wins at the close of the 2005 season , Fordham's football program ranks 15th among Division I programs on the all-time NCAA wins list, and fifth among programs currently playing in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, trailing only Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Princeton University.

Fordham was invited to play in the 1942 Rose Bowl, but declined the invitation because it had previously accepted a berth in the 1942 Sugar Bowl. The Rams, who defeated the University of Missouri by a 2-0 score, were the 1942 Sugar Bowl champions. The Rams also played in the 1941 Cotton Bowl but lost, 13-12, to Texas A&M. At least one source lists Fordham as the 1929 National Football Champions.

Since 2002, Fordham has played Columbia University for The Liberty Cup. The trophy was dedicated after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 forced the postponement of the first annual meeting between New York City's two Division I football programs. In 2009 the university announced that it will be offering scholarships for football for the first time since 1954. This makes the Rams inelligible to compete for the Patriot League championship, but simultaneously allows them to schedule games with Football Bowl Subdivision teams such as the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen, both immediately scheduled. In addition, the Rams are still eligible for an at-large bid for the Championship Subdivision play-offs. ^[4]

Football milestones

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National Championship: 1929
Bowl games:
* 1941 Cotton Bowl
* 1942 Sugar Bowl
Patriot League Champions: 2002, 2007
NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs: 2002 (Quarterfinal Loss), 2007 (First Round Loss)
Division III Playoffs: 1987 (Quarterfinal Loss)
Liberty Cup Winners: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008
Wins: 722 at the end of 2005 season, 15th most wins in NCAA, 5th most wins in Division I Football Championship Subdivision

Current players in professional football

Javarus Dudley, WR, Orlando Predators
Kevin Eakin, QB, Team Alabama
Aki Jones, DL, New York Dragons
Tad Kornegay, DB, Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Track and Field

{{#ifexist:Category:Articles needing additional references from January 2009 Johnny Gibson, a 1928 graduate of Fordham, broke the 440yrd Hurdles World Record while at the school and made the 1928 Olympic team in the same event. Gibson is known as a great contributor to the world of track and field as a founding member of the New Jersey Track and Field Officials Association and head coach of men's track and field at Seton Hall University from 1945 to 1972.

Sam Perry set the World Record for the 60 yard dash indoors.

Tom Courtney, perhaps Fordham's most famous runner, won Olympic Gold in the 800m run at the 1956 Games. While at Fordham Courtney had anchored the 2 Mile Relay that broke the World Record in 1954.

In 2008, the men's Track and Field team won the Outdoor Metropolitan Championship. The title was the first ever Metropolitan Athletic Conference team title captured by the Rams in the school's history ^[5]. In the 2009 Outdoor Season the Rams defended their title, while the Women's squad captured second in the team scoring.{cn}

Clubs

This is a partial listing of the club sports played at Fordham

Crew

Image:Fordham Crew logo.png |thumb|left|The logo of the Fordham rowing crew Men's crew has been a club sport at Fordham since 1915, when John Mulcahy (an alumnus and Olympic Gold medalist in the sport) helped found it there. Fordham Crew has since been quite successful, winning several national championships. The team is a member of the Dad Vail affiliation, making the Dad Vail Regatta the focus of its spring racing season. Exceptional crews have competed at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships, Henley Royal Regatta, and the San Diego Crew Classic. The team is divided into novice and varsity squads. Fordham Athletics also sponsors a women's varsity team.

Fordham Crew trains on the Harlem River. For many years the university maintained the last remaining boathouse on "sculler's row" off the river in Manhattan, along Sherman Creek, until it was destroyed by suspected arson in 1978. ^[6] It has yet to be replaced.

Since 1989, Fordham has medaled every year at the Dad Vail and other major collegiate regattas. During that period the team has had 9 undefeated seasons and 13 national championships: eight at the Dad Vail, three at the Eastern College Athletic Conference National Invitational Collegiate Regatta, one at the Division-I National Championships, and one at the IRA Championship. Fordham was the 2007 Dad Vail Champions in Men's Varsity Lightweight 4+.

Hockey

The University supports hockey as a club sport. In 2006, Rams hockey took their first League championship since becoming a club in the late 1960s. The team is recognized as a Division III team by the American Collegiate Hockey Association, and it is a member of the .

Lacrosse

Founded in 1970, the Lacrosse program has grown tremendously. After years as the top independent lacrosse team in the New York metropolitan area, the team has been accepted to be a member of the . The Rams currently compete in the NY Metro Division .

Men's Rugby

The University supports men's rugby as a club sport. They play in the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union, a member of USA Rugby, and field within it Division I 'A' and 'B' side rugby squads. The Rose Hill Campus is host every spring to the "Irish-Italian" men's rugby game, a staple of Fordham's Spring Weekend festival. The men's team won the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union (METNY) D-1 conference championship in 2003 and 2004, and made it to the first round of the national tournament in 2004, and also made an appearance in the second round of the national tournament in the fall of 2009. In the spring of 2009 Fordham Rugby were crowned champions of the annual Cherry Blossoms Tournament held in Washington DC. ^[7] They also consistently have ranked in the top 25 teams in the nation in recent years.

Women's Rugby

The women's team is a three time champion of the Big Apple Classic, which is hosted on Randall's Island, NY. They were also east coast champions in the spring of 2005.

Sailing

Fordham is a Regular member of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA), one of seven regional conferences of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association of North America (ICSA), the governing body of US Sailing. With 43 schools and a geographical territory extending from Canada to Virginia, MAISA is one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Fordham placed 10th among all teams and 2nd among all club teams, in 2007. ^[8] Fordham's Home Port is Morris Yacht & Beach Club overlooking Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay on City Island, a few miles from the Rose Hill campus.