1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game
The 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game was a college football game. It was between Cooper College (now the Sterling College) and Fairmount College (now Wichita State University). It was played on October 6, 1905, at Association Field in Wichita.[1] The game was played at night under gas lamps as a demonstration by the Coleman Company. It was the first night football game played west of the Mississippi River.[2] Fairmount won by a score of 24–0.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "Fairmount College Football Game Played By Light of Coleman Lanterns, October 6, 1905". Wichita State University Libraries' Department of Special Collections. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
- ↑ "FIRST LIGHT (1900 – 1929)". Coleman Company. Archived from the original on March 18, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
- ↑ "Detailed History". Sterling College. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Wichita State Yearly Results (1905)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2011. Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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