Students Play Chess Via Haverford Radio
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- Students Play Chess Via Haverford Radio
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- 1925
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Students Play Chess Via Haverford Radio
Author: Frank W. Harris, Jr.
Year: 1925
Students in the Haverford College Radio Club playing chess match against unknown opponents. Year estimated to be 1925. Photographer: Frank W. Harris, Jr. Throughout the early 1920s, the Haverford College Radio Club played numerous chess matches by radio, including a contest with Oxford University in December, 1924 that was purported to be the first inter-oceanic chess match by radio. College radio has a long history at Haverford College. An amateur radio club was founded in 1920 and students in the Radio Club launched WABQ as a licensed AM station in 1923. WABQ aired live music, faculty speeches, remote broadcasts of organ concerts from a theater in nearby Ardmore, and a variety of other programming. These broadcasts were said to have reached 1500 miles away, with reports that programming had been heard in Maine and Michigan. In December 1926, the WABQ license was sold (by the students in the club), and broadcasting did not return to campus until carrier current stations (WHAV, later renamed WHRC) were built in the early 1940s. Source: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College Photographic collection (HCT.001, Campus Life II 1920-1939, Radio Station). TriCol
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