The Lurch Bench

Historical marker location:

14 E Main St, Buckhannon, West Virginia

( Marker is on East Main Street (County Road 151) just west of North Spring Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2016

Theodore Crawford "Ted" Cassidy AKA "Lurch".

The West Virginia University Mountaineers football team played the first ever college football night game in 1892. The game was played under electric lights at the Mountaineer Field in Morgantown.