1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game

{{Infobox college football game

| name = Cooper vs. Fairmount
First night football game west of the Mississippi River

| football_season = 1905

| visitor_name_short = Cooper

| visitor_nickname = Barrelmakers

| visitor_school = Sterling Warriors

| home_name_short = Fairmount

| home_nickname = Shockers

| home_school = Fairmount College

| visitor_coach = unknown

| home_coach = Willis Bates

| visitor_1q = 0

| visitor_2q = 0

| visitor_3q = 0

| visitor_4q = 0

| home_1q = 6

| home_2q = 6

| home_3q = 6

| home_4q = 6

| date = October 6, 1905

| stadium = Association Park

| city = Wichita, Kansas

}}

The 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game was a college football game between {{cfb link|year=1905|team=Sterling Warriors|title=Cooper College}} (now Sterling College) and {{cfb link|year=1905|team=Wichita State Shockers football|title=Fairmount College}} (now Wichita State University) played on October 6, 1905, at Association Field in Wichita{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=cooper+fairmount+coleman+football&oq=cooper+fairmount+coleman+football&gs_l=hp.3...5267.6273.1.6523.9.8.0.0.0.0.174.1054.1j7.8.0.les%3Beqn%2Crate_low%3D0-035%2Crate_high%3D0-035%2Cmin_length%3D2%2Ccconf%3D1-2%2Csecond_pass%3Dfalse%2Cnum_suggestions%3D1%2Cignore_bad_origquery%3Dtrue%2Conetoken%3Dfalse..0.0...1c.1.x7dAGfh0O-k&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=8c4d5c05325012e4&bpcl=38897761&biw=1024&bih=637|publisher=Wichita State University Libraries' Department of Special Collections|title=Fairmount College Football Game Played By Light of Coleman Lanterns, October 6, 1905|accessdate=November 24, 2012}} The game was played at night under gas lamps as a demonstration by the Coleman Company and was the first night football game played west of the Mississippi River.{{cite web|url=http://www.coleman.com/FirstLight/|title=FIRST LIGHT (1900 – 1929)|publisher=Coleman Company|accessdate=November 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318011659/http://www.coleman.com/FirstLight|archive-date=March 18, 2013|url-status=dead}} Fairmount won by a score of 24–0.{{cite web|url=http://www.sterling.edu/125/history/details |publisher=Sterling College |title=Detailed History |accessdate=November 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127154905/http://www.sterling.edu/125/history/details |archivedate=January 27, 2013 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=119&year=1905 |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |accessdate=April 4, 2011 |first=David |last=DeLassus |title=Wichita State Yearly Results (1905) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019194944/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=119&year=1905 |archivedate=October 19, 2012 }}

Aftermath

Several other attempts had been made in the eastern United States toward the means of playing football at night, beginning in 1892 with the first night football game that ended at halftime.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111701688.html|work=The Washington Post|title=Good Night | date=November 18, 2006}} Since that game, other attempts in the east grew to be successful, but this was the first time such an attempt was made west of the Mississippi River. The use of lighting was considered successful.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-bypaths-of-kansas-history-november-1940/12839|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|title=ADDENDA TO "COLLEGE FOOTBALL IN KANSAS"|accessdate=March 20, 2013}}

References

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1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game

Aftermath

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