Selected as the best and brightest from the college gridiron, The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today the 147 candidates (36 from the FCS)for the 2012 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards. The awards are prese… more »

College football in the early 1900s was a different game without much competition from the National Football League. College football was king and Ivy League schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Cornell, dominated. Fordham University, located in the Bronx… more »

Teams to renew rivalries with Ivy League Non-scholarship leagues square off seven times on Saturday Although plenty of people following Patriot League football these days wish the league would award scholarships and aspire to be more like the Colo… more »

Fordham's Few Home Games Hurt Athletic Enthusiasm, Forces Fans to Go the Extra Miles Crowds tend to be larger at home games, and having more away games hurts already-lacking sports enthusiasm. When you read the original article there will be a sma… more »

Followers of Patriot League football should circle Saturday, Oct. 29 on their calendars. On that afternoon, the championship is likely to be determined in Hamilton, N.Y. Lehigh (101-45-1) and Colgate (90-51-1) are firmly positioned to improve on… more »

Each Patriot League football team scored at least 25 points higher than the sport's four-year APR average of 946. Patriot League schools came in with glowing marks in the latest release of the NCAA Academic Progress Rate, as 97 percent of Patriot Lea… more »

AS COLLEGE spending on football spins out of control, the Patriot League is to be cheered for not caving in to competitive envy and boosterism. The presidents of the seven colleges and universities in the league, which include Worcester’s Holy Cross, la… more »

Asked last week to decide whether their institutions should break with tradition and finally award athletic scholarships to football players, the presidents of the Patriot League decided to punt. And while an official decision has been put off for at le… more »

It's a picture-perfect dry and comfortable Saturday afternoon in mid-August. The Toyota Corolla – which has logged more than 160,000 miles while its driver traverses the Garden State in a never-ending quest to train kicking prospects – pulls up to the c… more »

Nine months after the fact, during the Patriot League's annual football media day earlier this month at Green Pond Country Club, the losing Colgate Raiders were still lamenting their 56-49 defeat to Lafayette, a back-and-forth, whiz-bang affair at Fishe… more »

A December decision is expected The Patriot League held another football media day this past week and along with assessing the strengths, weaknesses and relative health of their programs, the coaches had to address the potential of athletic scholarsh… more »

The Patriot League announced the 2010 football coaches preseason poll Tuesday, and Colgate, led by quarterback and Preseason Offensive Player of the Year Greg Sullivan, was pegged to finish No. 1. Lafayette was selected for second with rival Lehigh t… more »

Now that all of John Skelton's student assignments at Fordham are finished, quarterback who was drafted into the NFL has just graduation left. "I'm ready to go. I had a great four years," Skelton told The Post. "But college can't last forever." Ne… more »

The Bill Tierney story is about turning tragedy into triumph. On October 12, 1996, Tierney, a 20-year-old starting defensive back for the Fordham University football team, passed away on the field prior to the start of the Homecoming game against Lafaye… more »

Rams Begin Preparations for 2010 Season The calendar says it's spring so that means it's time for spring football. Only problem is that no one seemed to have told Mother Nature it was springtime as the Rams took to Murphy Field for their first practi… more »