Kennedy was assassinated, an Army-Navy football game played in front of a crowd of 102,000 spectators at Philadelphia’s ...

During the 1963 Army vs. Navy football game in Philadelphia ... Verna told NPR's Day to Day in 2003. That new device, instant replay, involved tape decks the size of refrigerators, housed in ...

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On this day in 1963, this television technique made its ... today," CBS executive Tex Schramm told Verna. Since then, "instant replay" (Verna credits Pat Summerall for this terminology) has ...

Instant replay made its debut 52 years ago on this day Dec. 7, 1963 during the CBS telecast of the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. CBS director Tony Verna was the genius behind the idea but wasn't ...

It was on this day in 1963 that CBS first aired an instant replay of a football game. It came during the annual Army-Navy game, which was postponed due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In 1963, Tony Verna changed the way we watch sports forever when he created "instant replay." He died this week at the age of 81. Robert Siegel talks to freelance writer Anna Clark about his legacy.

To cue up the very first instant replay, rewind to 1963, the year CBS director Tony Verna trucked a half-ton tape machine to the Army-Navy game. He was given an old copy of "I Love Lucy" to record ...

Tony Verna was the director who first brought instant replay to television during the 1963 Army-Navy football game. Now, at age 79, he has secured a patent for another system he calls “talking ...

Verna’s initial thought was to unveil instant replay at the 1963 NFL championship game, but that option was off the table because NBC had the rights to that year’s game. Instead, he chose to ...

Navy Beats Army in 1963: The Football Game That Paid Tribute ... Tony Verna, the inventor of instant replay Joi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Verna, for one, imagined that the long ...