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- The Fordham–St. John's rivalry is an inter-conference rivalry between the Fordham Rams and the St. John's Red Storm who are both located in New York City: Fordham playing in The Bronx and St. John's playing in Queens. Conference-wise, the Rams play in the Atlantic 10 Conference (Patriot League for football), while the Red Storm play in the Big East Conference. The rivalry is most prevalent in men's basketball, where the sides have met 88 times over the last century. The Red Storm have been dominant over that time, boasting a 69-19 record over the Rams. Included, a 23 game winning streak which lasted from 1972 through 1991, although Fordham has managed a few upsets since. St. John's also dominates Fordham in women's basketball, boasting a 19-5 record overall although Fordham has split the last 6 contests. In other sports, the two teams generally meet less frequently, but there's still a buzz amongst students for such showdowns. Fordham had an advantage over St. John's in football, winning nearly two-thirds (9-6 record) of the head-to-head matches although the bulk of those affairs came with little pageantry as most came when the two schools were fielding D-III teams. The teams haven't played since 1988 and the series will remain dormant since St. John's disbanded its football team in 2002, thus allowing St. John’s to spend more resources on basketball while Fordham continues to support a D-1 football program. Fordham’s football rivalry is now with its Jesuit sister schools Georgetown and College of the Holy Cross, all three playing in the Patriot League. The Bleacher Report states the major rival to St. John’s in the Big East is Seton Hall. To a certain extent a contention between the schools goes beyond sports. As the two largest Catholic universities in the region, containing the two largest green campuses in New York City, the institutions can be considered similar in look and character. The big differences comes in academic reputation, where Fordham holds a clear advantage. In the 2020 U.S. News & World Report College Rankings; National Universities, Fordham was ranked 66th, while St. John’s was ranked 170th. The friendly friction is said to have started in the 19th century when both schools were known as St. John's College. Fordham was founded as the third oldest university in New York City by coadjutor bishop (later archbishop) of the Diocese of New York, John Hughes and named after Saint John the Baptist in 1841. The school, located in the Fordham section of The Bronx was deeded over to the Jesuits in 1846. Several decades later, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bishop John Loughlin invited the Vincentian Fathers to found a separate St. John's College but one also named after Saint John the Baptist. In 1907 the Jesuit school was charted to be a full university and the St. John’s College name was dropped to use the town where it was located in the name, a practice common to Jesuit schools. Thus the Vincentian school (chartered as a full university in 1933) became the area's only "St. John's." Ironically, while the Vincentians held onto their original name they did not hold onto their original campus as the entire school was moved to the Hillcrest section of Queens in 1956. Although the University is run by the Vincentians a Dominican, Brian Shanley is the President. Fordham, although run by the Jesuits since 1841, now has a lay president Tania Tetlow starting in 2022. (en)
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