The History of American College Football

Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-68717-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

This volume provides unique insight into how American colleges and universities have been significantly impacted and shaped by college football, and considers how U.S. sports culture more generally has intersected with broader institutional and educational issues.

By documenting events from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including protests, legal battles, and policy reforms which were centred around college sports, this distinctive volume illustrates how football has catalyzed broader controversies and progress relating to race and diversity, commercialization, corruption, and reform in higher education. Relying foremost on primary archival material, chapters illustrate the continued cultural, social, and economic themes and impacts of college athletics on U.S. higher education and campus life today.

This text will benefit researchers, graduate students, and academics in the fields of higher education, as well as the history of education and sport more broadly. Those interested in the sociology of education and the politics of sport will also enjoy this volume.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Christian K.

Anderson, Christian

Fallucca, Amber C.

Fallucca, Amber

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Myths and Stories from College Football’s First One Hundred Years

Christian K. Anderson

Chapter 2: "As Good as the Best": Gallaudet Football and the Battle Against Normalization at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Richard Ian Kimball

Chapter 3: Football Culture at New South Universities: Lost Cause and Old South Memory, Modernity, and Martial Manhood

J. Hardin Hobson

Chapter 4: "The Great Dartmouth Team is No Longer": The 1925 Dartmouth Big Green, "The Present Evil," and the Transformation of College Football

Derek Charles Catsam

Chapter 5: Redefining Reform: Presidents, Football, and Athletic Policy in the Southeastern Conference, 1929-1936

Eric Moyen

Chapter 6: Saints Embrace Savagery: BYU Football and the Making of Modern Mormonism

Hunter M. Hampton

Chapter 7: Football, Athletic Protest, and Reform at Cal State Campuses in the 1960s

Marc A. VanOverbeke

Chapter 8: Mugs, Jugs, Bells, and Bowls: Traveling Football Trophies as Campus Traditions and Windows into Institutional Culture at Division III Institutions

Deborah Worley

Chapter 9: Last Stand for a Less Commercialized Game: Contesting Football’s Place in Higher Education in NCAA v. Board of Regents, 1984

Robert L. Kerr

Chapter 10: Conclusion: Understanding Current Controversies in College Football through Its Colorful Past

Amber C. Fallucca

Über Autor(innen)

Christian K. Anderson is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Amber C. Fallucca is Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan and Associate Director for the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning at the University of South Carolina, USA. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program.