[3] Waynesburg only scored in the first quarter but managed to keep Fordham within reach during the early part of the game.

Fordham blocked a punt in both the first and second halves of the game and recorded an interception in the fourth quarter that the offense was able to turn into a touchdown.

[6] The game came just over a month after the Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the Cincinnati Reds in the first-ever televised professional baseball game,[7] and five months after the Princeton and Columbia baseball teams played the first televised American sporting event.

[8] Sports broadcasting continued less than one month later on October 22 with a telecast of a game between the now-defunct Brooklyn "Football" Dodgers and the Philadelphia Eagles at Ebbets Field.

On February 28, 1940, the University of Pittsburgh played Fordham at Madison Square Garden in the first televised basketball game.