Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic reform /

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Main Author: Smith, Ronald A. (Ronald Austin), 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2011
Series:Sport and society.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.