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