Week 3: Readings on the Origins and Development of College Athletics Organization
[Read the required items [⇒], and any other four items of interest in this list]
⇒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).
- Frederick Jackson Turner. "To the Alumni on Football" (1906), The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 1986.
- The Rule Changes of Collegiate Football, 1893 thru 1912.
- 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).
- Andrew Doyle. "Fighting Whiskey and 'Fighting Whiskey and Immorality' at Auburn. The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927," Southern Cultures (2004).
- 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).
- 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).
- Michael Oriard. "How the 60s Changed Big-Time College Football," Chronicle of Higher Education October30, 2009.
- Ryan Swanson. "Establishing Proper 'Athletic Relations': The Nascent SEC and the Formation of College Athletic Conferences," The Alabama Review (68:2, 2015)
- Joseph N. Crowley. In The Arena: The NCAA's First Century, Digital Edition, NCAA, 2006.
- NCAA Football Rules.
- Harvard Athletics: A Timeline of Tradition.
- Princeton Football Throughout the Years [1869-2012]
- Scott Jaschik, "Sociologists Offer Explanations for the Link between Football and American Universities," Inside Higher Ed, August 21, 2012
- Marc A. VanOverbeke, "Out of the Quietness, a Clamor: 'We Want Football!' The California State Colleges, Educational Opportunity, and Athletics," History of Education Quarterly (53:4, 2013).
- Arik Lifschitz, Michael Sauder, and Mitchell L. Stevens, "Football as a Status System in U.S. Higher Education," Sociology of Education (87:2014)
- 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
- Jonathon R. Edwards and Marvin Washington. "Establishing a "Safety Net": Exploring the Emergence and Maintenance of College Hockey Inc. and NCAA Division I Hockey," Journal of Sport Management (29, 2015)
- Ashley A. Smith, "Student Interest, or Lack Thereof, Drives Change in Two-year College Athletics," Inside HigherEd, May 22, 2015.
- Ryan Swanson. "Establishing Proper "Athletic Relations": The Nascent SEC and the Formation of College Athletic Conferences," The Alabama Review (68:2, 2015)
- Zachary Y. Kerr, et al. "College Sports--Related Injuries -- United States, 2009--10 Through 2013--14 Academic Years," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (64:8, December 11, 2015)
- Andrew Beaton. "The Game That Changed the Tide of College Football College Football. The South’s Domination of College Football Is Rooted in Another Alabama And Washington Game: The 1926 Rose Bowl," The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2016
- Brian Costa. "Why America's Best Golf Prospect May Never Turn Pro," The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2015
- Brian Hainline, et al. "Interassociation Consensus Statement on Cardiovascular Care of College Student-Athletes," Journal of the American College of Cardiology Elsevier, online, 05/07/2016
- Jay Caspian Kang. "Has the Replay Taken the Fun Out of Watching Sports?" The New York Times Magazine, May 3, 2016
- Kevin Helliker. "How Does Running--A Sport that Requires Little More than a Pair of Sneakers--Inspire so Many New Books Every Year?" The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2016
- Laura Pappano. "How the University of Alabama Became a National Player," The New York Times, 11/3/2016
- Matthew Katz and Bob Heere. "New Team, New Fans: A Longitudinal Examination of Team Identification as a Driver of University Identification," Journal of Sport Management (30, 2016)
- Susan Jacoby. "Baseball and Its Aging Fans," The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2016