1942 Fordham Rams football team

1942 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

Fordham Rams football
1942 Fordham Rams football
Conference	Independent
1942 record	5–3–1
Head coach	Earl Walsh (1st season);
Home stadium	Polo Grounds

The 1942 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University during the 1942 college football season. The Rams offense scored 103 points while the defense (due to two separate defensive collapses) allowed 155 points. Although the Rams bounced back from those losses and ended the season with a winning record, the team finished the year unranked.

This marked the first time Fordham had finished unranked since sports writers began polling in 1935. Previously Fordham had finished 11th in the 1935 season ending UP poll, 15th in the 1936 season ending AP poll, third in 1937, 15th in 1938, 17th in 1939, 12th in 1940, and sixth in the 1941 season ending AP poll. Only Duke had finished each of the previous seasons ranked and they too finished the 1942 season unranked.

After the season, Fordham put their football program on hiatus for the duration of World War II.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 26	at Purdue	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	W 14–7	20,000
October 3	at Tennessee	Shield-Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	L 14–40	22,000
October 10	North Carolina	Polo Grounds New York, NY	T 0–0	19,500
October 17	West Virginia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 23–14	12,300
October 31	Saint Mary's	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 7–0	25,300
November 7	LSU	Polo Grounds New York, NY	L 13–26	16,400
November 14	at No. 3 Boston College	Fenway Park Boston, MA	L 6–56	35,000
November 21	Missouri	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 20–12	11,000
November 28	vs. North Carolina Pre-Flight	Yankee Stadium Bronx, NY	W 6–0	24,500
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

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Fordham Rams football
Venues	Polo Grounds (1928–1950; 1953–1954) Downing Stadium (1951–1952) Coffey Field (1970–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Ram–Crusader Cup (Holy Cross) The Liberty Cup (Columbia) 1941 Cotton Bowl Classic 1942 Sugar Bowl
Culture & lore	First televised football game Seven Blocks of Granite The Ram "The Ram"
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910–1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955–1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1942 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Williams		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College		–		8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo		–		6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	2	–	1
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	3	–	1
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth		–		5	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	3	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	4	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	1
Princeton		–		3	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	3
Columbia		–		3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	5	–	0
Harvard		–		2	–	6	–	1
Drexel		–		2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan		–		2	–	6	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll