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http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...niversity-birthplace-of-night-football-091313
"Pennsylvania's Mansfield University hosted the first-ever night football game in 1892, a contest that ended at halftime when the ref declared it ''inconvenient to continue.''
Why? Because the lighting was so poor."
''We got a little bit burned by technology, and we weren't ready to jump back on again until we were sure that all the bugs had gotten worked out,'' joked Steve McCloskey, the school's director of athletic operations."
"Part of a barnstorming effort by General Electric to sell rural America on newfangled electric lighting, the game was illuminated - barely - by strings of lights powered by a dynamo. It was so hard to see that confused players tackled their own teammates and even the referee. Ball-carriers had trouble avoiding the makeshift lamppost in the middle of the field."
"Pennsylvania's Mansfield University hosted the first-ever night football game in 1892, a contest that ended at halftime when the ref declared it ''inconvenient to continue.''
Why? Because the lighting was so poor."
''We got a little bit burned by technology, and we weren't ready to jump back on again until we were sure that all the bugs had gotten worked out,'' joked Steve McCloskey, the school's director of athletic operations."
"Part of a barnstorming effort by General Electric to sell rural America on newfangled electric lighting, the game was illuminated - barely - by strings of lights powered by a dynamo. It was so hard to see that confused players tackled their own teammates and even the referee. Ball-carriers had trouble avoiding the makeshift lamppost in the middle of the field."