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

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

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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 str...

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Smith, Ronald A.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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

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