HISTORY OF AMERICAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL; INSTITUTIONAL POLICY, CULTURE, AND REFORM

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Christian K. (Christian Kent), editor.

Fallucca, Amber C., editor.

Series:

Perspectives on the history of higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Football--United States--History.

Football.

College sports--United States--History.

College sports.

College sports--Social aspects--United States.

College sports--United States--Management.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

History of American College Football

Place of Publication:

ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.

Summary:

This volume provides unique insight into how American colleges and universities have been significantly impacted and shaped by college football, and considers how U.S. sports culture more generally has intersected with broader institutional and educational issues. By documenting events from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including protests, legal battles, and policy reforms which were centred around college sports, this distinctive volume illustrates how football has catalyzed broader controversies and progress relating to race and diversity, commercialization, corruption, and reform in higher education. Relying foremost on primary archival material, chapters illustrate the continued cultural, social, and economic themes and impacts of college athletics on U.S. higher education and campus life today. This text will benefit researchers, graduate students, and academics in the fields of higher education, as well as the history of education and sport more broadly. Those interested in the sociology of education and the politics of sport will also enjoy this volume.

Contents:

Myths and stories from college football's first one hundred years / Christian K. Anderson

"As good as the best" : Gallaudet football and the battle against normalization at the turn of the twentieth century / Richard Ian Kimball

Football culture at New South universities : lost cause and Old South memory, modernity, and martial manhood / J. Hardin Hobson

"The great Dartmouth team is no longer" : the 1925 Dartmouth Big Green, "the present evil," and the transformation of college football / Derek Charles Catsam

Redefining reform : presidents, football, and athletic policy in the Southeastern Conference, 1929-1936 / Eric Moyen

Saints embrace savagery : BYU football and the making of modern Mormonism / Hunter M. Hampton

Football, protest, and reform at Cal State campuses / Marc A. VanOverbeke

Mugs, jugs, bells, and bowls : traveling football trophies as campus traditions and windows into institutional culture at Division III institutions / Deborah Worley

Last stand for a less commercialized game : contesting football's place in higher education in NCAA v. Board of Regents, 1984 / Robert L. Kerr

Conclusion : understanding current controversies in college football through its colorful past / Amber C. Fallucca.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-00-313876-4

1-003-13876-4

1-000-38373-3

9781003138761

OCLC:

1243743390