Author: Frank G. MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages :
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All Sports Record Book. -- 1930-
Author: Frank G. MenkeAll-sports Record Book
Author: The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control
Author: Robert PruterPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652194
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. Pruter’s work traces the history of high school sports from the student-led athletic clubs of the 1800s through to the establishment of educator control of high school sports under a national federation by the 1930s. Pruter’s research serves not only to highlight this rich history but also to provide new perspectives on how high school sports became the arena by which Americans fought for some of the most contentious issues in society, such as race, immigration and Americanization, gender roles, religious conflict, the role of the military in democracy, and the commercial exploitation of our youth.
All-sports Record Book
Author: Frank Grant MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Shaping College Football
Author: Raymond SchmidtPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608868
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as the universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity; all of it being played out against a backdrop of struggle between the academic and athletic factions over control of intercollegiate sport's place in the lives of the students and the university community. This is the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's "Golden Era," and the topics discussed range from the shift of power away from the game's pioneering schools, through the real evolution of forward passing, to stadium building and the decade-long struggle over the game's growing over-emphasis that culminated in the legendary Carnegie Report of 1929. Including chapters on college football's class-oriented opposition to professional football during the decade, the rise of the sport at the Catholic colleges and the historically Black colleges, and some of the major scandals and disputes involving the universities, Shaping College Football also contributes to the study of sport and culture.
The All-sports Record Book
Author: Frank Grant MenkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
All-sports Record Book
Author: All-sports Record Book
Author: Globalizing Sport
Author: Barbara J. KeysPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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