Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930

by Raymond Schmidt

Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as the universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity; all of it being played out against a backdrop of struggle between the academic and athletic factions over control of intercollegiate sport's place in the lives of the students...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608861
• ISBN13: 9780815608868
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.3"