Fordham at Penn

When: Saturday at 6 p.m., Franklin Field

Radio: WFIL-AM (560).

Records: Fordham, 1-3; Penn, 1-2.

Coaches: Fordham, Tom Masella, (sixth season, 27-33); Penn, Al Bagnoli (20th season, 132-59).

Series: Penn leads, 4-0. This is the first meeting since 1999 of two of college football's most historic programs.

WHAT TO WATCH

Has all-Ivy quarterback Billy Ragone hit his stride? Ragone (15 for 25, 160 yards) led Penn on an 89-yard, game-winning drive last week against Dartmouth.

Fordham has an exceptional punter in Patrick Murray, who averaged 52.1 yards on eight kicks during his team's 21-17 loss at Rhode Island. He had a 73-yarder that only tied his career high. His 46.9-yard average leads the FCS.

Can the Quakers avoid the big play? They have given up five plays of 35 or more yards (four for touchdowns).

Fordham quarterback Peter Maetzold is the first true freshman to start at quarterback for the Rams since John Skelton in 2007. Skelton was picked in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

Penn has won 15 straight in the month of October.

Ragone completed all eight of his passes on the Quakers' game-winning drive last week.

The Rams became a scholarship program in 2010, and are not eligible to compete for the 2011 Patriot League championship. Since Fordham is currently an associate member of the conference, games against the Rams do not count in the league standings for member teams.

Penn has an FCS-longest 16 straight conference wins. The three closest games during the streak have come against Dartmouth - by six points in 2009, by seven points in overtime last season, and by two points last week.

- Kevin Tatum

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