The Myth of the Amateur : : A History of College Athletic Scholarships / / Ronald A. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Ronald A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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. This striking opening sets Smith on the path of a story filled with paradoxes and hypocrisies that plays out on the field, in meeting rooms, and in courtrooms—and that ultimately reveals that any insistence on amateurism is invalid, because these athletes have always been paid, one way or another. From that first contest to athletes’ attempts to unionize and California’s 2019 Fair Pay to Play Act, Smith shows that, throughout the decades, undercover payments, hiring professional coaches, and breaking the NCAA’s rules on athletic scholarships have always been part of the game. He explores how the regulation of male and female student-athletes has shifted; how class, race, and gender played a role in these transitions; and how the case for amateurism evolved from a moral argument to one concerned with financially and legally protecting college sports and the NCAA. Timely and thought-provoking, The Myth of the Amateur is essential reading for college sports fans and scholars.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Amateurism Then and Now -- Chapter two. The Harvard Dilemma—Amateur or Professional -- Chapter three “Scholarships” Eastern authority and early Payments -- Chapter four. Training, Training Tables, and Athletic Dorms -- Chapter five. The Amateur Challenge of Summer Baseball for Pay -- Chapter six. The 1929 Carnegie Report condemnation of Professionalism -- Chapter seven. The Southeastern Conference and Athletic Scholarships -- Chapter eight. National Athletic Scholarship Failure: The Sanity Code -- Chapter nine. The Cleansing of the Ivy League: No Athletic Scholarships? -- Chapter ten. Recruiting, Full Scholarships, and the Big Ten Succumbs -- Chapter eleven. Academic Standards, the 1.600 Rule, and Their Demise -- Chapter twelve. Taxation, Workers’ Compensation, and the “Student- Athlete” -- Chapter thirteen. Women’s Athletics, Title IX, and the Kellmeyer Lawsuit -- Chapter fourteen. Television, Unions, and the Collapse of Amateurism -- Chapter fifteen. Is NCAA “Amateurism” Alive? The O’Bannon lawsuit impact -- Chapter sixteen. The Alston and Jenkins Lawsuits, and NCAA Fig- Leafed Professionalism -- Chapter seventeen. State and Federal Legislative Pay- for- Play Action -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Notes -- Index