Nissen Scoremaster "Cadet" Scoreboard
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One of the first known reports of a scoreboard in use came in 1895 at a Harvard football game. The scores consisted of numbers on a piece of wood, hung on a nail and changed manually by a person watching the game. These types of scoreboards were prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s with the addition of clocks and an occasional advertisement. One of the first basketball scoreboards appeared in 1934 with a clock in the center and two nails on either side for hanging the score. Electronic scoreboards began appearing in the 1950s and often included multiple cable wires that connected the scoreboard to the scorer's table or press box. This scoreboard was used in the gym at North Canton Junior High School on Charlotte Street in North Canton, Ohio from the 1960s to the early 1990s and consists of the main scoreboard and a control box that sat on the scorer’s table and was attached to the scoreboard with cables. Light bulbs which were covered with colored plastic discs provided different colors for score and time. As technology improved this scoreboard was eventually replaced with a computer driven one which was controlled with wireless technology.
place: label: used
content: United States: Ohio, North Canton
topic: label: name of sport
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: scholastic
label: web subject
content: Sports spectator
label: web subject
content: Sports
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Change Your Game
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Christopher and Deborah A. Fiedler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0221.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0221
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0221.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scoreboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 in x 72 in x 5 in; 134.62 cm x 182.88 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 72 in x 6 in; 137.16 cm x 182.88 cm x 15.24 cm