Starting in 1964, students began using the left field and center field area for their
club football team. The team was sponsored by the students themselves and it was these same students who rented temporary wooden stands, to be set around the gridiron, for the 1964 and 1965 seasons. The university stepped in to build permanent wooden stands behind the left field fence, which served as a grandstand for football. A press box and scoreboard were added in 1967, and the university reinstated varsity football for the
1970 season. Fordham football moved up from
Division III to
Division I-AA (now
Division I FCS) in
1989; the
following year, the wooden stands were torn down and replaced with aluminum bleachers. Bathrooms and concessions were added beneath the new set of bleachers while an elevator was added to the new press box. Beneath the seats, a weight room was added in
1996. Infilled synthetic
FieldTurf replaced the natural grass field in
2005 while, behind home plate, other renovations during 2004 and 2005 included lights, new dugouts, as well as a new grandstand and press box for the baseball portion. This section of the facility now goes by
Houlihan Park, as the recognized home of
Rams baseball. The diamond is aligned approximately north-northeast (home plate to second base); the football field is in the outfield and runs west-southwest to east-northeast, from the left field foul line to center field, with the press box and grandstand along the north-northwest sideline. Monument, west of grandstand on Constitution Way A monument to the
Seven Blocks of Granite was dedicated in
2008, honoring the
offensive lines of
1929,
1930,
1936, and
1937. It is located on Constitution Row, near the west end of the grandstand. Renovations in
2014 included the addition of a full-color Daktronics video scoreboard beyond the Southern Boulevard endzone, as well as chair back seating between the 40-yard lines. The FieldTurf surface was upgraded with FieldTurfTM. Professional soccer came to Jack Coffey Field in
2016 as it hosted the
Fourth round U.S. Open Cup match between the
New York Cosmos and
NYCFC on June 15. ==Popular culture==