Football Drops Opener at Boston College

Game Recap: Football | 8/30/2025 5:36:00 PM

James Conway data 17 tackles for Rams

Chestnut Hill, Mass. – The final time Fordham and Boston College squared off in a soccer recreation Dwight Eisenhower was president, fuel was 21 cents a gallon, and a film ticket would set you again 45 cents. So much has modified since then however sadly for the Rams the one factor that did not change was the winner of the sport as Eagles got here out on high, defeating Fordham, 66-10, within the season opener at Alumni Stadium.
 
Grad scholar linebacker James Conway led the Rams defensively along with his 17 tackles, 9 of them solo, whereas senior defensive again Alex Kemper added ten stops for the Rams to go along with a cross breakup.
 
How It Happened
After Boston College took a 7-0 lead, Fordham obtained on the scoreboard with 6:04 left within the first quarter to slender the margin to 7-3.
 
The Eagles held a 21-3 on the break however scored 24 unanswered factors within the third quarter and a pair of touchdowns early within the fourth earlier than junior quarterback Gunnar Smith took it in from the one for Fordham’s second rating.
 
Notes
• Sophomore placekicker Bennett Henderson has now related on 9 straight subject targets courting again to final 12 months.
 
• Fordham’s protection was powerful towards the run, limiting Boston College to simply 97 yards on the bottom.
 
• It was the primary assembly for the Rams towards a present member of the ACC since a recreation with Syracuse in 1954.
 
By the Numbers
46.7 – Punting common for grad scholar punter Will Haslett (seven punts for 327 yards).
 
197 – All-time video games for the Rams towards fellow Jesuit establishments.
 
436 – Career tackles for James Conway, a college and Patriot League report.
 
What’s Next?
• The Rams return to the Bronx to host the Monmouth University Hawks on Saturday, September 6, at 6:00 p.m. at Moglia Stadium.
 
• It would be the seventh assembly between Fordham and Monmouth on the gridiron.
 
• The Hawks lead the all-time sequence, 4-2, together with a win in final 12 months’s recreation at Monmouth.
 
• The two groups have cut up the previous 4 conferences with the Hawks profitable final 12 months at Monmouth and the Rams taking the 2023 assembly, 52-49, at Monmouth in 2022 as Tim DeMorat accomplished 34 of 51 passes for 452 yards and tied a college report with six landing passes.
 
• Monmouth is certainly one of two CAA opponents for the Rams this 12 months (Stony Brook).
 
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