The YES Network's Chris Shern talks Fordham Football
It’s only Monday, but it's safe to say we found our media clips of the week.
This past Saturday, Fordham football player Sam
Ajala set a school record with 282 yards receiving as the Rams, ranked eighth
in the Football Championship Subdivision, improved to 8-0 for the first time
with a 52-31 victory at Yale. Not surprisingly, the media has taken notice.
Here are a few excerpts from this past weekend’s coverage:
“There appears to be
new blocks of granite at Fordham.”
“The successful start
has raised echoes of the great Fordham teams of the 1930s, featuring linemen
known as the Seven Blocks of Granite. One of those “blocks” was Vince Lombardi,
who would become a renowned coach. Appearances in major bowls followed in the
early 1940s, but Fordham dropped football in 1954, and it returned as a varsity
sport only in 1970, at a lower level.”
The Rams, 1-10 two years ago before Moorhead took over, are now 7-0 -- their best start since 1930.
“…if the Fordham scouting report was required reading
last week, the [Yale] Bulldogs realized that their opponent Saturday was
offensively inclined and prolific.
If Lombardi, who went
on to become maybe the most famous football coach in history, and the rest of
the blocks were still around, they might have had a hard time recognizing the
game being played by Fordham these days. There’s no doubt, however, they’d love
the results.
“The most successful
college team in the tri-state area can be found at Fordham University.”
Watch the full YES Network segment, which includes interviews with Coach Joe Moorhead and
students, here.
-Gina Vergel
