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Friday's men's soccer match to be broadcast over World Wide Web
Sept. 29, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University is offering a free "virtual" ticket to Friday night's men's soccer game between top-ranked Penn State University and the defending 1998 NCAA champion Hoosiers, currently ranked second in the same Soccer America poll.
Friday's game will be professionally produced by IU, which is videostreaming the event live in its entirety on the World Wide Web. The game will begin at 7:30 p.m. CDT at Bill Armstrong Stadium on the IU Bloomington campus.
The Web address for the game will be http://broadcast.iu.edu/soccer100199. People will need RealPlayer G2 to view the broadcast. For those who can't log on to see the action as it unfolds, the match will be archived for one month for rebroadcast on the Web.
IU has been a national leader in new uses of emerging communications technologies such as the World Wide Web, and was the first university to use this technology to broadcast live on the Web a major collegiate soccer tournament. IU presented the adidas/IU Credit Union Soccer Classic Sept. 3-5.
This fall, the university also began presenting major educational events live on the Web, including a panel discussion on youth violence prevention featuring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and a concert that brought together two of the world's finest cellists -- Janos Starker and Mstislav Rostropovich -- on the same stage for the first time ever.
"Indiana University is rapidly becoming a national leader in the use of the Web to videostream content," said Christopher Simpson, IU vice president for public affairs and government relations. "We are always looking for innovative ways to use technology to bring people together and make the education experience more enriching."
The IU's men's soccer team is led by Coach Jerry Yeagley, now in his 27th year at IU, who has led the Hoosiers to national titles in 1982, 1983, 1988 and 1998, 12 Final Four appearances, and seven Big Ten titles in the last eight years. Penn State enters Friday's game with a 9-0-0 record.
For more information about IU and its other Web events, go to http://www.indiana.edu
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)