Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform

Name: Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
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ISBN: 9780252077838

ISBN-10: 0252077830

ISBN-13: 9780252077838

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ronald A. Smith

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In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court.Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reformalso tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform-to combat corruption,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 12/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



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


Afterword


Intercollegiate Athletic Reform Timeline


Notes


Bibliography


Index