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Sports and Freedom - The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics (Paperback, Reissue)
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Sports and Freedom - The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics (Paperback, Reissue)
Series: Sports and History
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Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave
form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was
inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was
imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Focusing on the influence of these prestigious eastern
institutions, this fascinating study traces the origins and
development of intercollegiate athletics in America from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Smith begins
with an historical overview of intercollegiate athletics and
details the evolution of individual sports--crew, baseball, track
and field, and especially football. Then, skillfully setting
various sports events in their broader social and cultural
contexts, Smith goes on to discuss many important issues that are
still relevant today: student-faculty competition for institutional
athletic control; the impact of the professional coach on big-time
athletics; the false concept of amateurism in college athletics;
and controversies over eligibility rules. He also reveals how the
debates over brutality and ethics created the need for a central
organizing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association,
which still runs college sports today. Sprinkled throughout with
spicy sports anecdotes, from the Thanksgiving Day Princeton-Yale
football game that drew record crowds in the 1890s to a meeting
with President Theodore Roosevelt on football violence, this
lively, in-depth investigation will appeal to serious sports buffs
as well as to anyone interested in American social and cultural
history.
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