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
1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game The 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game was a college football game between (now the Sterling College) and (now Wichita State University) played on October 6, 1905, at Association Field in Wichita The game was played at night under gas lamps as a demonstration by the Coleman Company and was the first night football game played west of the Mississippi River. Fairmount won by a score of 24–0. Several other attempts had been made in the eastern United States toward the means of playing football at night, beginning in 1892 with the first night