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Temple game delayed more than an hour

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Temple game delayed more than an hour

POSTED: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 6:43 PM

Keith Pompey, Inquirer Staff Writer

Filed Under: Football

The Temple vs. Akron Mid-American Conference opener was delayed an hour and 19 minutes due to four lightning strikes within six miles of InfoCision Stadium.

By rule, the game must be delayed for 30 minutes after the final lightning strike. The first strike occured at 6:25 p.m. and the last one came around 7:11 p.m. As a result, the game will resume around 7:41 p.m.

When it resumed, the Owls began their second offensive possession at their 24-yard line.

- Keith Pompey

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Comments (3)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:30 PM, 09/10/2011

What is the score?

— frank105

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:05 PM, 09/10/2011

Notre Dame is ahead 14-0.

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:06 AM, 09/11/2011

Addazio causes electrical storms. He eats lightning and craps thunder.

— damnels

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About this blog

Keith Pompey has been an Inquirer reporter since September 2004. He began covering the Temple men's basketball team in November 2010 and Temple football in August 2011. Pompey previously covered the Penn and Drexel men's basketball teams after initially focusing on high school sports.

Pompey is a native Philadelphian and a University of Pittsburgh graduate. Follow him on Twitter @pompeysgridlock. Reach Keith at kpompey@phillynews.com.