Today in 1939, for the first time in history, a football game was publicly broadcast. Now my personal knowledge of football and most other sports is abysmal, I never watch the big game or anything. But broadcasting history does interest me and broadcasted sports is such a thing. It's odd to think that the first time people watched football on TV was less than 100 years ago, considering it's a way of life for a lot of people now.
Now the game itself was the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, vs the Fordham University Rams from New York, New York. Their game was at the now demolished Triborough Stadium in New York, and the home team won. Like, I might be a football inept nerd, but I'm pretty sure Forhams 34-7 victory meant the Yellow Jackets got smoked.
And this seems to have stuck, as the Fordham Rams are a "Division I" team with its own Wikipedia page and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets have a single paragraph on the Waynesburg university page, most of which is about that first televised game. Yes, I'm using Wikipedia as a popularity metric and I'll probably do it again.
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