Backboards & Blackboards : : College Athletes and Role Engulfment / / Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Adler, Patricia A.,; Adler, Peter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Adler, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue-Studying College Athletes --; 1. Overview --; 2. Role Expectations --; 3. The Athletic Role --; 4. The Social Role --; 5. The Academic Role --; 6. The Gloried Self --; 7. Resolving Role Conflict --; 8. Terminating the Role --; 9. The Engulfed Self --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231878739; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/adle90436
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler.

Describes and analyses the relationships of the players, coaches, supporters, news media, and other key personnel and depicts the problems, pressures and rewards of being a student athlete. Based on ten years of observations and interviews of teams from five universities in three different cities.