Fordham

The Fordham Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Fordham University, located in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Patriot League. Fordham's first football team was fielded 141 years ago in 1882; the team plays its home games on campus at 7,000-seat Coffey Field.

Since 2018, the Rams have been led by head coach Joe Conlin, previously the offensive coordinator at Yale. He is a distant relative of Ed Conlin (1933–2012), Fordham's all-time leading scorer in basketball who played seven seasons in the NBA.

Jack Coffey Field is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in the northeast United States, located on the campus of Fordham University in The Bronx, New York. It is the Fordham Rams' home for football, men's and women's soccer, and baseball. The facility opened for baseball 93 years ago in 1930, and was named in 1954 for baseball coach and longtime athletic director Jack Coffey, four years before his 1958 retirement.

Starting in 1964, students began using the left field and center field area for their club football team. The team was sponsored by the students themselves and it was these same students who rented temporary wooden stands, to be set around the gridiron, for the 1964 and 1965 seasons. The university stepped in to build permanent wooden stands behind the left field fence, which served as a grandstand for football. A press box and scoreboard were added in 1967, and the university reinstated varsity football for the 1970 season.

Fordham football moved up from Division III to Division I-AA (now Division I FCS) in 1989; the following year, and the wooden stands were torn down and replaced with aluminum bleachers. Bathrooms and concessions were added beneath the new set of bleachers while an elevator was added to the new press box. Beneath the seats, a 3,200-square-foot (300 m2) weight room was added in 1996.

Infilled synthetic FieldTurf replaced the natural grass field in 2005 while, behind home plate, other renovations during 2004 and 2005 included lights, new dugouts, as well as a new grandstand and press box for the baseball portion. This section of the facility now goes by Houlihan Park, as the recognized home of Rams baseball. The diamond is aligned approximately north-northeast (home plate to second base); the football field is in the outfield and runs west-southwest to east-northeast, from the left field foul line to center field, with the press box and grandstand along the north-northwest sideline.

The Seven Blocks of Granite Monument,

west of grandstand on Constitution Way

A monument to the Seven Blocks of Granite was dedicated in 2008, honoring the offensive lines of 1929, 1930, 1936, and 1937. It is located on Constitution Row, near the west end of the grandstand.

Jack Coffey Field following a 2014 playoff game.

Renovations in 2014 included the addition of a full-color DakTronics video scoreboard beyond the Southern Boulevard endzone, as well as chair back seating between the 40-yard lines. The FieldTurf surface was upgraded with FieldTurfTM.

New York Cosmos vs. NYCFC at Jack Coffey Field in the 4th Round of the 2016 US Open Cup.

Professional soccer came to Jack Coffey Field in 2016 as it hosted the Fourth round U.S. Open Cup match between the New York Cosmos and NYCFC on June 15.