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Sports and Freedom : the Rise of Big-Time College Athletics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Ronald A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Sports and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHAPTER I: The English Background of Early American College Sport; CHAPTER II: Sport, the Extracurriculum, and the Idea of Freedom; CHAPTER III: The First Intercollegiate Sport: Crew and the Commercial Spirit; CHAPTER IV: Crew: Internationalism, Expansion, and the Yale-Harvard Pullout; CHAPTER V: The Rise of College Baseball; CHAPTER VI: From the Burial of Football to the Acceptance of Rugby; CHAPTER VII: The Americanization of Rugby Football: Mass Plays, Brutality, and Masculinity; CHAPTER VIII: College Track: From the Paper Chase to Olympic Gold.
  • CHAPTER IX: Student Control and Faculty ResistanceCHAPTER X: The Early Failure of Faculty Inter-Institutional Control; CHAPTER XI: The Rise of the Professional Coach; CHAPTER XII: Amateur College Sport: An Untenable Concept in a Free and Open Society; CHAPTER XIII: Eligibility Rules in a Laissez-Faire Collegiate Scene; CHAPTER XIV: Brutality, Ethics, and the Creation of the NCAA; CHAPTER XV: The Swarthmore Case: An Addendum on Freedom; EPILOGUE A Twentieth-Century Meaning of American College Athletics; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.