1942 Fordham Rams football team

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

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
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	3	–	0
Boston University			–					4	–	5	–	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
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

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