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St. John’s Football Alumni Committee Constructs Monument To Commemorate Now-Defunct Football Team

The Red Storm football program spanned three centuries, and it’s now recognized with a pavilion on the Queens campus.

The newly-constructed monument honoring the former members of the St. John’s football team. Torch Photo / Brady Snyder

Visitors walking through St. John’s University’s Gate 4 entrance will notice a newly-erected structure nestled between DaSilva Memorial Field and the tennis courts: a monument commemorating the university’s former football team.

“The location was selected, more or less, because when we used to go out to practice every day, we would walk [through] that area onto the field,” said Mitch Barnett, a member of the St.