CBS Olympic broadcasts shown on the same day they took place. During the games, officials asked Tony Verna, one of the members of the production staff, if it could use its videotape equipment to determine whether or not a slalom skier missed a gate. Verna then returned to CBS headquarters in New York City and developed the first instant replay system, which debuted at the Army–Navy football game in 1963. The event in Squaw Valley was the last time CBS would carry a Winter Olympics until 1992. Later that year, CBS aired the 1960 Summer Olympics from Rome, the only time that CBS
1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game The 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game was the first rugby-style football game played in the United States. The Harvard Crimson played the McGill Redmen on May 15, 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The game used three periods or "games" and ended in a scoreless tie. A Princeton vs. Rutgers football game was played five years earlier in 1869, but under a variation of England's Football Association rules closer to contemporary soccer than American football. On October 20, 1873, representatives from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Rutgers met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York