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Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic reform
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- Creator
- Ronald A. Smith
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- ©2011
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9786612941627, 0252035879, 9780252090288, 9780252077838, 0252077830, 0252090284, 9780252035876, 1282941623
- OCLC
- ocn700709008, ocn601332139, ocn923492760
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-326) and index.
- 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