On December 7, 1963, Army and Navy squared off in their annual football game, then as now one of the sport's great rivalries. In the fourth quarter, Army quarterback Carl "Rollie" Stichweh faked a ...

Tony Verna, a television director and producer who invented instant replay for live sports 51 years ago, has died. He was 81. Verna died Sunday at his Palm Desert home after battling acute ...

You don’t tend to think of instant replay as being something that was “invented,” as such. It just seems logical and natural for us to expect that something which is shown on television can, almost ...

(KFVS) - Let's travel back in time to this day in 1963. That's when TV history was made during the Army-Navy football game. The game was broadcast on CBS and it was the first time instant replay was ...

If you have watched any football on television recently then you have watched a lot of instant replay. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Well, take a look at it, turnovers - a big ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Army-Navy game. The game should have been played a week earlier, but it had been pushed back out of respect for recently slain president John F. Kennedy.

Decades before the DVR and years before the first Super Bowl, a young television director decided to try something that would either amaze or confuse TV watchers: the instant replay. With that, Tony ...

WASHINGTON — Before Tony Verna invented instant replay, no one said, ‘‘Let’s go to the videotape.’’ Mr. Verna was directing the Army-Navy football game for CBS Sports in 1963 when he ran the first ...

Verna introduced the concept of instant replay during the Army-Navy football game on Dec. 7, 1963. By The Associated Press Tony Verna, a television director and producer who invented instant replay ...

On December 7, 1963, Army and Navy squared off in their annual football game, then as now one of the sport's great rivalries. In the fourth quarter, Army quarterback Carl "Rollie" Stichweh faked a ...