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Required Reading:

A course packet entitled Intercollegiate Sports in America: 1900-1996: A History Colloquium Reader is available at the Hub. This includes a selection of readings on our major topics that will serve as the common background for the discussions. Everyone needs to read these materials before the discussions. This edition of the Reader is substantially different than used in previous classes.

The link to the draft reading list offers a beginning list of books that appear interesting for the various topics of our colloquium. Each student should provide additional suggestions to enhance this reading list as well as suggestions of books that should be removed as not very helpful. (I am grateful to Dr. Art Sandeen for sharing his bibliography for this initial list.)

THE BACKGROUND

"To the Alumni on Football" by Frederick Jackson Turner (1906), The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 1986, p. 56

"The Growth of College Athletics", American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 13-33

"The Development of American Higher Education and Intercollegiate Sport", The Character of American Higher Education and Intercollegiate Sport by Donald Chu (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989) pp. 11-60

THE COACH

"Football: Battle or Sport?" by David Starr Jordan, The Pacific Monthly, March 1908, pp. 335-343

"The Coach in College Athletics," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 161-189

"The Preliminary Season," Big-Time Football at Harvard: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid edited by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1994) pp. 1-20

"The Harvard Stadium," The Overland Monthly, May 1903 by George P. Morris, pp. 344-345

"Extramural Relationships," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 190-222

"Fiscal Fitness? The Peculiar Economics of Intercollegiate Athletics," The Old College Try: Balancing Academics and Athletics in Higher Education by John R. Thelin and Lawrence L. Wiseman (Washington, D.C.: Report No. 4, School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, 1989--An ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education Report) pp. 13-41

"Economic Theory and the NCAA," The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior by Arthur A. Fleisher III, Brian L. Goff, and Robert D. Tollison (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992) pp. 17-34

"1993-94 Financial Survey," College Football Association, Charles M. Neinas (May 1995) pp. 1-10

THE STUDENT ATHLETES

"Athletic Participation and its Results," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 104-134

Light and Shadows on College Athletes: College Transcripts and Labor Market History by Clifford Adelman (Washington, D.C.: US Department of Education, GPO, 1990) pp. i-vi, 1-38

"The Recruiting and Subsidizing of Athletes," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 224-265

"Throwing Like a Girl", The Atlantic Monthly; (August, 1996) 278:2, 84-87.

"Racism, Sexism and Unethical Behavior," The Character of American Higher Education and Intercollegiate Sport by Donald Chu (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989) pp. 93-127

THE MEDIA

"The Press and College Athletics," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 266-290

"Versions of Manliness (Football and Prize fighting: Manliness and Class, Football and Carlisle: Manliness and Race, Football and the New Woman)" Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle by Michael Oriard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1993) pp. 216-276

THE VALUES

"Values in American College Athletics," American College Athletics by Howard J. Savage, et. al (New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929) pp. 291-311

"Small-College Sports, Big-Time Athletics, and the Yawning Chasm Between the Two," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1987, pp. 116

"Prescription for Reform: The Essential Ingredients," Athletics and Academe. An Anatomy of Abuses and a Prescription for Reform by Wilford S. Bailey and Taylor D. Littleton (New York: American Council on Education and Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991) pp. 60-112

Quest for Balance: Task Force to Review the Intercollegiate Athletics Program of the University of Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida, 1991) pp. 1-47

A Model for Intercollegiate Athletics by John V. Lombardi (original of following versions) ["Sports Medicine", The Journal of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges, Vol.34, No. 1, January/February 1992] and ["Control, Accountability Are Gator Achievements," The NCAA News, 28:32 (September 16, 1991) 5] pp. 1-9