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Sports and freedom : the rise of big-time college athletics / / Ronald A. Smith
| Sports and freedom : the rise of big-time college athletics / / Ronald A. Smith |
| Autore | Smith Ronald A (Ronald Austin), <1936-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Disciplina | 796/.07/1173 |
| Collana | Sports and history |
| Soggetto topico |
College sports - United States - History
College sports - England - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-771644-X
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 | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783378903321 |
Smith Ronald A (Ronald Austin), <1936->
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| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sports and freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of big-time college athletics / / Ronald A. Smith
| Sports and freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of big-time college athletics / / Ronald A. Smith |
| Autore | Smith Ronald A (Ronald Austin), <1936-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 796/.07/1173 |
| Collana | Sports and history |
| Soggetto topico |
College sports - United States - History
College sports - England - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| 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 | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449709703321 |
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Smith Ronald A (Ronald Austin), <1936->
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| Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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