Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic reform / Ronald A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Ronald A. (Ronald Austin), 1936-

Series:

Sport and society.

Sport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Collegiate Athletic Association--History.

National Collegiate Athletic Association.

College sports--United States--History.

College sports.

College sports--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History.

College sports--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 344 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court. _x000B_Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform also tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform--to combat corruption, to level the playing field, and to make sports more accessible to minorities and women--Ronald A. Smith candidly explains why attempts at change have often failed.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Student-Controlled Athletics and Early Reform

2. Faculty, Faculty Athletic Committees, and Reform Efforts

3. Early Interinstitutional Reform Efforts

4. Presidents: Promoters of Reformers?

5. Football, Progressive Reform, and the Creation of the NCAA

6. The NCAA: A Faculty Debating Society for Amateurism

7. The 1920s and the Carnegie Report on College Athletics

8. Individual Presidential Reform: Gates Hutchins, and Bowman

9. Presidential Conference Reform: The 1930s Graham Plan Failure

10. The NCAA and the Sanity Code: A National Reform Gone Wrong

11. Ivy League Presidential Reform

12. Scandals and the ACE Reform Effort in the 1950s

13. Lowly Standards: Chaos in the Sports Yards

14. The Hanford Report, Rejected Reform, and Proposition 48

15. Title IX and Governmental Reform in Women's Athletics

16. African Americans, Freshman Eligibility, and Forced Reform

17. Presidential Control, Minor Reform, and the Knight Commission

18. NCAA Reorganization, the Board of Presidents' Reform, and the APR

19. Faculty Reform Efforts: CARE, the Drake Group, and COIA

20. The Freshman Rule: A Nearly Forgotten Reform

Afterword

Intercollegiate Athletic Reform Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-94162-3

9786612941627

0-252-09028-4

OCLC:

700709008