A 100-year-old football was pulled out of Midwest’s museum Friday night and brought to the town’s high school football field not to be hiked, passed or booted but to commemorate the tiny town’s century-old link to gridiron history.

That tie to the nation’s first full high school football game under lights was appreciated by a hometown crowd that included some members of the high school’s past football teams.

On Nov. 19, 1925, a Thursday, the Midwest Oil and Refining company set up lights that redefined when and how the nation’s high school athletes could compete.

Though some college night games had already occurred, the Midwest Yellow Dogs and Casper Mustangs paved the way for generations of “Friday Night Lights” across the country.

Midwest Schools Principal Mike Brainard character

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