The rise of gridiron university : higher education's uneasy alliance with big-time football /

Offers the most incisive account to date of the origins of college football, tracing the sport's evolution from a gentlemen's pastime to a multi-million dollar enterprise that made athletics a permanent fixture on our nation's campuses and cemented college football's place in Ame...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ingrassia, Brian M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, ©2012.
Colección:Culture America.
Temas:
Football > United States.
College sports > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
College athletes > Education > United States.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
Sportifs universitaires > Éducation > États-Unis.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
College athletes > Education.
College sports.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Football.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The cultural cornerstone of the ivory tower
  • 1. Physical culture, discipline, and higher education in 1800s America
  • 2. Progressive era universities and football reform
  • 3. Psychologists : body, mind, and the creation of discipline
  • 4. Social scientists : making sport safe for a rational public
  • 5. Coaches : in the disciplinary arena
  • 6. Stadiums : between campus and culture
  • 7. Academic backlash in the post-World War I era
  • A circus or a sideshow?

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