Sports and Freedom : The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics.

Intro -- Contents -- CHAPTER I: The English Background of Early American College Sport -- CHAPTER II: Sport, the Extracurriculum, and the Idea of Freedom -- CHAPTER III: The First Intercollegiate Sport: Crew and the Commercial Spirit -- CHAPTER IV: Crew: Internationalism, Expansion, and the Yale-Harvard Pullout -- CHAPTER V: The Rise of College Baseball -- CHAPTER VI: From the Burial of Football to the Acceptance of Rugby -- CHAPTER VII: The Americanization of Rugby Football: Mass Plays, Brutality, and Masculinity -- CHAPTER VIII: College Track: From the Paper Chase to Olympic Gold -- CHAPTER IX: Student Control and Faculty Resistance -- CHAPTER X: The Early Failure of Faculty Inter-Institutional Control -- CHAPTER XI: The Rise of the Professional Coach -- CHAPTER XII: Amateur College Sport: An Untenable Concept in a Free and Open Society -- CHAPTER XIII: Eligibility Rules in a Laissez-Faire Collegiate Scene -- CHAPTER XIV: Brutality, Ethics, and the Creation of the NCAA -- CHAPTER XV: The Swarthmore Case: An Addendum on Freedom -- EPILOGUE A Twentieth-Century Meaning of American College Athletics -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.

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