Shaping college football : the transformation of an American sport, 1919-1930 / Raymond Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Raymond.

Series:

Sports and entertainment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Football--United States--History.

Football.

United States.

History.

College sports--United States--History.

College sports.

Physical Description:

xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Summary:

"Although the intercollegiate gridiron game was already a half-century old by the close of World War I, probably no other sport ever experienced such sweeping transformations as did college football during the 1920s. These transformations were significant changes that combined to migrate the game of college football from its semicloistered world of prewar days to one that by the end of the decade bore many of the characteristics of any late-twentieth-century American sport, or, in some cases, at least established the foundation stones for the completion of that migration in the following decades. Among those aspects of college football undergoing radical reshaping were the style of play, the stadia and the locales in which the game unfolded, the financial significance and prestige possibilities available to the successful football schools, a recognition of football's importance and place within an increasingly urbanized and ethnically diverse American society, and even the very place of intercollegiate sport within the university community."

Contents:

1 Shaping National Parity 8

2 Rise of the Intersectionals 26

3 Stadium Building and the Days of Big Business 39

4 Opposing Organized Pro Football 62

5 Advances on the Gridiron 82

6 Searching for the Notre Dame Experience 108

7 Black College Football: A Separate Gridiron World 131

8 Lords of the Prairie 154

9 Scandals and Disputes 174

10 The Debate over Reform 199

11 The Carnegie Report 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index.

ISBN:

9780815608868

0815608861

OCLC:

122337961