the first televised college football game was in 1939.
the first televised college football game was in 1939.
when was the first televised college football game?
1939
the university's athletic teams, the rams, include a football team that boasted a win in the sugar bowl, two pro football hall of famers, two all-americans, two canadian football league all-stars, and numerous nfl players; the rams also participated in history's first televised college football game in 1939 and history's first televised college basketball game in 1940. fordham's baseball team played the first collegiate baseball game under modern rules in 1859, has fielded 56 major league players, and holds the record for most ncaa division i baseball victories in history.









































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in the 1950s, conventional wisdom suggested that television allowed football fans to watch their favorite teams for free from the comfort of their own homes, and this was to blame for falling attendance. a 1948 study conducted by the crossley corporation at the ncaa's request found that fans thought watching televised games was equal or superior to watching from the stands. in 1950, a study by the national opinion research center at the university of chicago said that attendance at college football games would have been 40 percent higher if no games had been televised. in the long term, the publicity provided by college football telecasts helped to give the sport exposure to potential ticket buyers, increasing ticket sales. the popularity of televised college football has been accompanied by a growth in game attendance. in 1949, when the u.s. population was around 150 million, 17.5 million spectators attended a college football game. by 2012, after the population had doubled, attendance had grown proportionally higher, at nearly 50 million people.
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