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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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of 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 A. Moyen
• Saints embrace savagery : BYU football and the making of modern Mormonism / Hunter M. Hampton
• Football, athletic protest, and reform at Cal State campuses in the 1960s / 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.

Contributors:

Anderson, Christian K. (Christian Kent) , editor

Fallucca, Amber C. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Perspectives on the history of higher education

Subjects:

Football — United States — History

College sports — United States — History

College sports — Social aspects — United States

College sports — United States — Management

Education, Higher — Aims and objectives — United States

College sports

College sports — Management

College sports — Social aspects

Education, Higher — Aims and objectives

Football

United States

Education, Higher

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

GV950 .H57 2021

ISBNs:

9780367687168 (hardcover)
036768716X (hardcover)
9780367687175 (paperback)
0367687178 (paperback)
9781003138761 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781000383751 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781000383737 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020051668

OCLC Numbers:

1221016963