A total of 3,500 UT football fans “saw” the Alabama football away game in Alumni Memorial auditorium through the use of Grid-Graf in October 1932. This system deployed a green mesh “field” on wire mesh on the stage on which the ball was represented by a light aimed by the device’s inventor, Larry Peek. Play-by-play information was obtained by a postal telegraph system set up in an adjacent room and with information rushed to Peek and his assistants, who changed the numbers of players and moved the ball on the “field.” Cheerleaders and the UT band added to the excitement of the event.
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