Chris Breen, Maurice Briscoe, Tony Downs, Mark Manno and Joe Wyda were the team captains.
[2] The 5–1 Colgate Raiders played fewer league games because they did not match up against the newest member of the conference, Georgetown, while Fordham did.
The Rams and crosstown rival Columbia Lions had initially hoped to play the game as a sign of New York City resiliency.
This was the first time since the "Seven Blocks of Granite" era that Fordham had played a game on Thanksgiving Day; that 1936 season-ender was also against a local opponent, New York University.
Fordham played its home games at Jack Coffey Field on the university campus in The Bronx, in New York City.