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ERASMUS HALL HIGH SCHOOL 1974-1977 WAGNER COLLEGE 1978- 1981 NJ RAMS SEMI PRO FOOTBALL1982-1983
PAUL EDWARDS TEAM CAPTAIN 1977
PAUL EDWARDS WAS NAMED THE MOST VALUABLE
PLAYER FOR THE 1977
FOOTBALL SEASON
PAUL EDWARDS
WAS VOTED A MEMBER OF THE
BROOKLYN 44 ALLSTAR TEAM
1977
PAUL EDWARDS INDUCTED INTO THE ERASMUS HALL HALL OF FAME IN 1978
PAUL EDWARDS QUARTERBACK
PAULEDWARDS GRADUATED IN 1982
EARNING HIM A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION-EDUCATION & ACCOUNTING MINOR
PAUL EDWARDS QUARTERBACK
PAUL EDWARDS PLAYED QUARTERBACK FOR THE NJ RAMS SEMI-PRO TEAM FOR THE 1982 & 1983 SEASONS. PAUL EDWARDS WAS NAMED CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM IN 1983.
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NEW JERSEY RAMS New York Football Conference Champions: 1978 Mid-East Football Conference Champions: 1979, 1981, 1983 & 1984Background The New Jersey Rams were one of the nation’s top semi-pro football teams during the early 1980’s. The former New York Rams moved to Bergen County, New Jersey ahead of the 1977 New York Football Conference season, initially setting up shop at County Park in Lyndhurst. The team would bounce between various home stadia in Bergen and Essex counties over the next eight seasons. Ed O’Reilly served as the Rams’ head coach for the club’s entire run. In Competition During the 1980’s, the Rams were virtually unbeatable in competition against their Mid-East Football Conference foes, primarily other New York City and northern Jersey clubs. The Rams won the MEFC title in 1981, 1983 and 1984 while losing closely fought championship games to the Brooklyn Kings in 1980 and 1982.The nation’s top semi-pro clubs of the era were also put into a national ranking by the Minor Pro Football Association. Beginning in 1980, the MPFA also organized national playoff competitions that saw the top-rated teams scrape together funds to travel outside their regions. In November 1983, the Rams advanced to the MPFA national championship game in Wisconsin, losing to the Racine Gladiators 30-13 before an estimated crowd of 3,000 fans.1 The following season, 1984, an undefeated Rams squad held the MPFA’s #1 national ranking for much of the year. But the team ultimately lost to the Scranton Eagles on the road in an MPFA playoff contest. This proved to be the Rams’ final appearance, as the club disbanded along with the rest of the Mid-East Football Conference the following summer.2Former Pace University quarterback Doug Woodward (Rams ’81) was a team success story. Woodward would go on the play three years in the United States Football League as the back-up quarterback for the Boston-New Orleans-Portland Breakers franchise from 1983 to 1985, earning himself his very own Topps football card in the process.
JOHN JOYCE (NJ Rams '82)Former NJ Rams teammate John Joyce, was captain of the NJ General (USFL) in 1983. John Joyce is shown above tackling Steve Young of the LA Express. Steve Young was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in the year 2005.
DOUG WOODWARD (NJ Rams ’81)Former Pace University quarterback Doug Woodward (Rams ’81) was a team success story. Woodward would go on to play three years in the United States Football League as the back-up quarterback for the Boston-New Orleans-Portland Breakers franchise from 1983 to 1985, earning himself his very own Topps football card in the process.
ED MCMICHAEL NJ RAMS '83 '84Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame ED MCMICHAEL CLASS 1980 INDUCTION 1993 SPORT(S) Football McMichael was a second-team AP All-East selection in 1980 after receiving honorable mention All-East honors in 1979. He engineered the stunning 1979 victory over Tennessee and established new passing marks in a two-year career. Also at the helm in the 1980 thriller against Alabama, McMichael passed for 3,584 yards and completed 292 passes for 61.6 completion percentage. A 1980 squad captain, he threw for 20 career touchdowns, four of which came in the 1980 Princeton game, the last scheduled against the Tigers. He also played briefly for the New Jersey Generals in the USFL.
PAUL EDWARDS(NJ Rams '82 '83)Paul Edwards had free agent tryouts with the USFL's NJ Generals, Philadelphia Stars, Chicago Blitz in '83 and The Canadian Football league Toronto Argonauts in '82.