Author: Melissa EversolePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (Big Ten Conference) Origin and Early Development, 1895-1904
Author: Melissa EversoleCreating the Big Ten
Author: Winton U SolbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252050258
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game. Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between higher education and collegiate football in the Big Ten's first fifty years. This formative era saw debates over eligibility and amateurism roil the sport. In particular, faculty concerned with academics clashed with coaches, university presidents, and others who played to win. Solberg follows the conference's successful early efforts to put the best interests of institutions and athletes first. Yet, as he shows, commercial concerns undid such work after World War I as sports increasingly eclipsed academics. By the 1940s, the Big Ten's impact on American sports was undeniable. It had shaped the development of intercollegiate athletics and college football nationwide while serving as a model for other athletic conferences.
Handbook of the Intercollegiate (Big Ten) Conference
Author: Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Big Ten Conference Handbook
Author: Big Ten Conference (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rules of organization & procedure, rules of eligibility, agreements for men's and women's programs.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
American College Athletics
Author: Howard James SavagePublisher:
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Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The word Eugenics first appears in this book. Also, in this book, Galton shows mathematically "the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstract thought."
The Anatomy of a Game
Author: David M. NelsonPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134551
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
"This is the first football history to chronicle year by year how playing rules developed the game. Football - a four-dimensional game of rushing, kicking, forward passing, and backward passing - has had more playing rule changes since its inception than any other sport. The Anatomy of a Game follows football rules from the game's European roots through its beginning in the United States to its position as the number-one spectator sport in the 1990s. Highlighted are details of the crisis years that changed the character of the game, with coaches and rules committee members the featured players. David M. Nelson, who served on the NCAA Rules Committee longer than Walter Camp, provides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958, as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876." "Ever since the first two human beings kicked, threw, or batted an object competitively, there have been playing rules. Games are mentioned in the Bible, and the Romans brought football's forerunner to Britain, from where it was exported to the United States. It was in the United States that college students decided to make their game rugby rather than soccer. Although the students invented United States football and made the first rules, their ruling power was eventually lost to the faculty, administrators, coaches, rules committees, and the NCAA." "Beginning as a brutal sport, football survived several crises before and after the turn of the century, eventually becoming respectable. The 1931 injury crisis split the high school and college rules and the same year the professionals went their own way, with rules largely based on spectator appeal." "Today the sport is a national treasure primarily because of its playing rules, over seven hundred in total, which make college football unique among the world's team sports. Moreover, football remains an American game, never having the same impact in other countries as do baseball and basketball." "Rules make the game, but people make the rules. Football survived the major crises that threatened the game because committee members adhered to the precepts that had governed football since its inception. The game began with an attempt to have a consistent code of justice, personal accountability, and equality. In some sense the playing rules are a type of moral precept that explains in the simplest terms what can and cannot be done. The Football Code, which first prefaced the rules in 1916, makes the game - more than any other sport - a moral one because it sets standards for coaching, playing, sportsmanship, and officiating."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Go Huskies!
Author: W. Thomas PorterPublisher: Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 1600788270
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comprehensive history of the University of Washington football program focuses on the major eras in Husky football history, featuring the best teams, the greatest games, the biggest comebacks, and the most exciting and unexpected moments, such as when Washington forged its first national championship by defeating Minnesota in 1961. Paying homage to iconic coaches, including Jim Phelan, Jim Owens, and Don James, this keepsake also details the greatest players and fan favorites in Washington history, including NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon and NFL Pro Bowlers Lawyer Milloy and Corey Dillon. The book concludes with game day events, the 10 pregame activities that every Husky fan should experience, and a "Husky Timeline," making it a well-rounded and must-have for fans both old and new.
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