MORGANTOWN, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Today, we can watch and listen to football games virtually everywhere. Smartphones, TVs, and radios give us the ability to take live professional and college football anywhere.
It wasn’t always like that, though, as football was not always broadcast to the world.
On October 8, 1921, that all began to change as a college football game was broadcast live on a local radio station for the first time in the world.
That game was WVU vs. PITT which was played at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
The historical broadcast was done by KDKA, the nation’s first commercial radio station. Local brands in the Pittsburgh and surrounding area sponsored the game between the Mountaineers and Panthers.
This game was the 17th meeting of the Backyard Brawl in which Pitt won in a hard-fought contest, 21-13. WVU would win the following year 9-6.
The WVU vs. PITT radio broadcast sparked the national obsession with college football which is still highly popular in America today.
West Virginia hosts Pitt at Morgantown in the 106th Backyard Brawl on Saturday which is set to kickoff at 7:30 PM on ABC.