Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Smith, Ronald A. (Ronald Austin), 1936-

Title Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic reform / Ronald A. Smith
Published Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Sport and society
Sport and society
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject National Collegiate Athletic Association -- History
SUBJECT National Collegiate Athletic Association fast
Subject College sports -- United States -- History
College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History
College sports -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College sports
College sports -- Law and legislation
College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718366
ISBN 9780252090288
0252090284
1282941623
9781282941625
9786612941627
6612941626