The myth of the amateur a history of college athletic scholarships
"In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competition--a crew regatta between Harvard and Yale--in 1852, when both teams received an all-expenses-paid vacation from a railroad magnate....
| Main Author: | Smith, Ronald A. 1936- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Amateurism then and now
- The Harvard dilemma
- amateur or professional
- Scholarships: eastern authority and early payments
- Training, training tables, and athletic dorms
- The amateur challenge of summer baseball for pay
- The 1929 Carnegie Report: condemnation of professionalism
- The Southeastern Conference and athletic scholarships
- National athletic scholarship failure: the Sanity Code
- The cleansing of the Ivy League: no athletic scholarships?
- Recruiting, full scholarships, and the Big Ten succumbs
- Academic standards, the 1.600 rule, and their demise
- Taxation, workers' compensation, and the student-athlete
- Women's athletics, Title IX, and the Kellmeyer lawsuit
- Television, unions, and the collapse of amateurism
- Is NCAA amateurism alive?: the O'Bannon lawsuit impact
- The Alston and Jenkins lawsuits, and NCAA fig-leafed professionalism
- State and federal legislative pay-for-play action