UNDER THE LIGHTS!

    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

              UNDER THE LIGHTS!

     I wonder how many of you stayed up to

watch Mondal Night Football this week?

There's nothing quite like football at night,

Who hasen't heard the term "Friday Night

Lights" when it comes to area High School

football games? But have you ever wondered

when the first football game was played under

the lights? Well the answer would be 1894 and

the place would be...Pennsylvania! Yep! The

Pennsylvania Normal School at Mansfiield, 

now Mansfield University played the first

documented night time football game at a

field in Mansfield. And their opponent was

the team from Wyoming Seminary in Kingston!

Who won? Well, nobody. You see the game was

called at halftime with the score 0-0 because the

lights turned out to be inadaquate! Still, the 

tradition got started and these days it's a very

big score with football fans! If only those

lights didn't get in the Ref's eyes so often! Hope

you're well and that all your NEWS is good!