Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2015

Tuesday 4-6 and online

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Readings: Origins and Development of College Athletics Organization

Required Reading
Read at least two in addition to the required items.

Howard J. Savage, et. al. The Growth of College Athletics, American College Athletics (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 13-33. (UMA GV347 .S358)

David Riesman and Reuel Denney. "Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion," American Quarterly (1951).

  1. Joseph N. Crowley. In The Arena: The NCAA's First Century, Digital Edition, NCAA, 2006.
  2. W. Burlette Carter. "The Age of Innocence: The First 25 Years of The National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1906 to 1931," Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2006).
  3. Michael Oriard. "How the 60s Changed Big-Time College Football," Chronicle of Higher Education October30, 2009.
  4. V. Barbara Bush, Cindy Castañda, David E. Hardy, and Stephen G. Katsinas. "What the Numbers Say About Community Colleges and Athletics," New Directions for Community Colleges (2009)
  5. Scott Jaschik, "Sociologists Offer Explanations for the Link between Football and American Universities," Inside Higher Ed, August 21, 2012.
  6. Report of the Rawlings Panel on Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 29, 2013.
  7. Ben Cohen, "How Players at MIT Engineered a Football Team: This Season, the Engineers Are Going to Playoffs, but They Once Competed in Hand-Me-Downs," Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2014.
  8. Arik Lifschitz, Michael Sauder, and Mitchell L. Stevens, "Football as a Status System in U.S. Higher Education," Sociology of Education (87:2014).
  9. Marc A. VanOverbeke, "Out of the Quietness, a Clamor: 'WeWant Football!' The California State Colleges, Educational Opportunity, and Athletics," History of Education Quarterly (53:4, 2013).

Celebrating Institutional Tradition

  1. Princeton Football Throughout the Years [1869-2012]
  2. Harvard Athletics: A Timeline of Tradition.
  3. Indiana Hoosiers History.
  4. Frederick Jackson Turner. "To the Alumni on Football" (1906), The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 1986.
  5. Hal A. Lawson and Alan G. Ingham. "Conflicting Ideologies Concerning the University and Intercollegiate Athletics: Harper and Hutchins at Chicago, 1892-1940," Journal of Sport History (1980).
  6. Andrew Doyle. "Fighting Whiskey and 'Fighting Whiskey and Immorality' at Auburn. The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927," Southern Cultures (2004).

The Football Rules

  1. The Rule Changes of Collegiate Football, 1893 thru 1912.
  2. Scott A. McQuilkin and Ronald A. Smith. "The Rise and Fall of the Flying Wedge: Football's Most Controversial Play," Journal of Sport History (1993).
  3. NCAA Football Rules.

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