Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports

by Howard P. Chudacoff

"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today: the failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players;the thorny racial integration of university sports...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081323
• ISBN13: 9780252081323
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"