Author: Bruce Roy EricksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
History of Financial Aid to Athletes in the Big Ten 1941-1961
Author: Bruce Roy EricksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Myth of the Amateur
Author: Ronald A. SmithPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477322884
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Completed Research in Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
Author: Completed Research in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Author: American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Research CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Sport Bibliography
Author: Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Microform Publications Bulletin
Author: Bibliographie Du Sport
Author: Ingrid DraayerPublisher: Sport Information Resource Centre = Centre de documentation pour le sport
ISBN: 9780920678145
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Scientific Methods of Wrestling
Author: Paul PrehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wrestling
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
120 Years of American Education
Author: College Athletes for Hire
Author: Allen L. SackPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313001480
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Many books have been written on the evils of commercialism in college sport, and the hypocrisy of payments to athletes from alumni and other sources outside the university. Almost no attention, however, has been given to the way that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has embraced professionalism through its athletic scholarship policy. Because of this gap in the historical record, the NCAA is often cast as an embattled defender of amateurism, rather than as the architect of a nationwide money-laundering scheme. Sack and Staurowsky show that the NCAA formally abandoned amateurism in the 1950s and passed rules in subsequent years that literally transformed scholarship athletes into university employees. In addition, by purposefully fashioning an amateur mythology to mask the reality of this employer-employee relationship, the NCAA has done a disservice to student-athletes and to higher education. A major subtheme is that women, such as those who created the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), opposed this hypocrisy, but lacked the power to sustain an alternative model. After tracing the evolution of college athletes into professional entertainers, and the harmful effects it has caused, the authors propose an alternative approach that places college sport on a firm educational foundation and defend the rights of both male and female college athletes. This is a provocative analysis for anyone interested in college sports in America and its subversion of traditional educational and amateur principles.