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Rain Man
05-27-2009, 02:44 PM
Who was the first football player to be televised while competing in a sporting event?


Answer here:

Sid Luckman was the shortstop in the first televised sporting event, a baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. http://www.c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/sid_luckman.html


What teams played in the first televised pro football game?

Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgershttp://www.profootballhof.com/history/decades/1930s/first_televised_game.jspThe first football game of any type was a college game between Fordham and Waynesburg less than a month earlier.

MagicHef
05-27-2009, 03:06 PM
1: ???

2: Philedelphia Eagles vs. Brooklyn Dodgers 10/22/1939

Stewie
05-27-2009, 03:55 PM
1) Jim Thorpe?

chiefs1111
05-27-2009, 03:55 PM
Steve Bono!

kstater
05-27-2009, 05:58 PM
Very interesting. You can see the spoiler when scrolling over the header.

Saul Good
05-27-2009, 07:04 PM
Steve Bono!

You would be correct, but Steve Bono was so fast that he couldn't be caught on film.