Sports and freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of big-time college athletics / / Ronald A. Smith

• Autore: Smith Ronald A (Ronald Austin), <1936->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 796/.07/1173
• Soggetto topico: College sports - United States - History; College sports - England - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER PAGE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I: The English Background of Early American College Sport -- The Oxford-Cambridge Collegiate Connection -- Colonial American Colleges: Sport and the Reaction -- The Collegiate Way and College Sport -- II: Sport, the Extracurriculum, and the Idea of Freedom -- College Paternalism and Collegiate Rebellions -- The Extracurriculum Fills a Void -- Classes, Class Battles, and the Sporting Spirit -- The Popularity of the Football Rush -- College Sport as Community Ritual -- The Ideas of Freedom and Equal Rights and the Rise of Sport -- III: The First Intercollegiate Sport: Crew and the Commercial Spirit -- The Commercialization of the Yale-Harvard Meet of 1852 -- The Early Regattas -- Professionalism: The Coach and "Scientific" Training -- IV: Crew: Internationalism, Expansion, and the Yale-Harvard Pullout -- The Harvard-Oxford Boat Race of 1869 -- The Gala College Rowing Association Regattas, 1871-1876 -- The Yale-Harvard Pullout -- Crew in the Post-Saratoga Period -- V: The Rise of College Baseball -- The First Intercollegiate Baseball Game: Amherst vs. Williams -- The Civil War Stimulus and the Harvard Tour -- The College Baseball Association, 1879-1887 -- The Summer Baseball Question -- VI: From the Burial of Football to the Acceptance of Rugby -- The Burial of Freshman-Sophomore Inter-Class Football -- Rutgers vs. Princeton: A Football First -- The Short Life of Association Football -- Harvard and the Game of Rugby -- The Development of the Thanksgiving Day Game -- VII: The Americanization of Rugby Football: Mass Plays, Brutality, and Masculinity -- Walter Camp, Father of American Football -- The Development of Mass Plays and Cries of Brutality -- Brutality and the Crisis of 1894 -- Football and Manliness: A Measure of the American College. ; VIII: College Track: From the Paper Chase to Olympic Gold -- The British Background of Track and Field -- Tom Brown and the Paper Chase Arrive in America -- Track: A James Gordon Bennett Regatta Addendum -- The IC4A Is Born -- International Track: The Yale-Harvard Connection -- Princeton, William Milligan Sloane, and the 1896 Olympics -- IX: Student Control and Faculty Resistance -- Student Associations Support Intercollegiate Teams -- Faculty Weigh Student Freedom against Responsibility -- The First Faculty Athletic Committee -- Harvard Develops the Athletic Committee Concept -- A Crack in Faculty Control -- X: The Early Failure of Faculty Inter-Institutional Control -- The First Attempts at Inter-Institutional Control -- The Brown Conference of 1898 -- The Dilemma of Athletic Governance -- XI: The Rise of the Professional Coach -- The Beginning of Professional Coaching: The Crew Situation -- The First Great American Pro Crew Coach: Charles Courtney -- The Rational Approach of Harvard Coach William Reid -- Harvard and the Great Debate over Professional Coaching -- XII: Amateur College Sport: An Untenable Concept in a Free and Open Society -- Amateurism as Defined by the British -- Professionalism in Nineteenth-Century College Athletics -- A Professional Model and an Ideology of Freedom and Equality -- XIII: Eligibility Rules in a Laissez-Faire Collegiate Scene -- An Early Eligibility Question-Graduate Participation -- Freshman Eligibility: More Athletic than Educational Concern -- Bona Fides: Specials, Transfers, and Tramps -- Recruiting and Granting Athletic Scholarships -- The Eligibility Situation by the Time of the NCAA -- XIV: Brutality, Ethics, and the Creation of the NCAA -- The Muckrakers and Theodore Roosevelt -- Harvard's Threat, Reid's Ruse, and More Brutality -- The MacCracken Conference: Abolition or Reform. ; The NCAA Begins with a Compromise -- The NCAA: A Ruling Body Lacking Power and Prestige -- XV: The Swarthmore Case: An Addendum on Freedom -- EPILOGUE A Twentieth-Century Meaning of American College Athletics -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sports and freedom
• ISBN: 0-19-028172-3; 1-280-52524-X; 0-19-802203-4; 1-4237-3732-6; 1-60129-785-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449709703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sports and history.