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Tudor's electric football with a vibrating field was not the only game in town, as this fall 1949 ad for "Super Electric Football" from the rival Electric Game Co. shows. In 1948, Norman Sas succeeded his father, Elmer Sas, as president of Tudor Metal Products Corporation and invented Tudor Electric Football.
Norman Anders Sas (March 29, 1925 – June 28, 2012) was an American toy inventor, mechanical engineer and manufacturer who is best known for inventing electric football, a tabletop game popular from the late 1940s until the development of video football games in the 1980s.
James Mason Prentice (May 29, 1909 – January 16, 2005) was an American game designer and businessman who founded The Electric Game Company. At the age of 17 he invented a simple electric baseball game which went on to become his best-selling game, as well as the first board game of its kind to use electrical relays.
Along with, as a matter of fact, G.I. Joe and Wham-O’s Super Ball — which, incidentally, in the mid-1960s inspired Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt to broach “Super Bowl” as the name for what ...
The game continued in this manner and was played in halves. During halftime, the players were allowed to show a short promotional film of their school or they might talk about career plans or the like. The first College Quiz Bowl match was played on NBC radio on October 10, 1953, when Northwestern University defeated Columbia University, 135 ...
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This page lists board games, card games, and wargames published in the 1960s. ... Strat-O-Matic Football (1968) Anzio (1969) Lensman (1969) Lines of Action (1969)
The flag-football game will kick off Saturday at 9 p.m. ET at the Play Football Field at the Super Bowl Experience sponsored by Panini, the NFL’s interactive football theme park at the Ernest N ...