| Description |
xii, 344 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Sport and society |
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Sport and society.
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| Contents |
Student-controlled athletics and early reform -- Faculty, faculty athletic committees, and reform efforts -- Early interinstitutional reform efforts -- Presidents: promoters or reformers? -- Football, progressive reform, and the creation of the NCAA -- The NCAA: a faculty debating society for amateurism -- The 1920s and the Carnegie report on college athletics -- Individual presidential reform: Gates, Hutchins, and Bowman -- Presidential conference reform: the 1930s Graham plan failure -- The NCAA and the sanity code: a national reform gone wrong -- Ivy league presidential reform -- Scandals and the ace reform effort in the 1950s -- Lowly standards: chaos in the sports yards -- The Hanford Report, rejected reform, and Proposition 48 -- Title IX and governmental reform in women's athletics -- African Americans, freshman eligibility, and forced reform -- Presidential control, minor reform, and the Knight commission -- NCAA reorganization, the board of presidents' reform, and the APR -- Faculty reform efforts: CARE, the Drake Group, and COIA -- The freshman rule: a nearly forgotten reform |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
National Collegiate Athletic Association -- History.
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College sports -- United States -- History.
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College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History.
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College sports -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
2010024102 |
| ISBN |
9780252035876 cloth alkaline paper |
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0252035879 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780252077838 paperback alkaline paper |
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0252077830 paperback alkaline paper |
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