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- catalog abstract "In Games Colleges Play John Thelin chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990 from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the "Gipper" to the modern era of big budgets, powerful coaches, and pampered players. He describes how "extracurricular" sports programs seldom accorded equal prominence with teaching and research in mission statements or annual reports have become central to the life of many universities. As administrators search for a proper balance between athletics and academics, Thelin observes, this "peculiar institution" in American higher education grows increasingly powerful and controversial. Looking past the playing fields and lavish facilities into board rooms and administrative suites, Thelin finds disturbing patterns of abuse and limited reform and explores the implications of these patterns for today's college presidents, faculty, and students. He examines the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report, the formation of major athletic conferences, the national college basketball scandals after World War II, the dissolution of the Pacific Coast Conference in the 1950s, and the Knight Foundation Report of 1991. Games Colleges Play provides historical background that will inform current policy discussions about the proper place of intercollegiate athletics within the American university. "Intercollegiate athletics has been a perennial source of opportunity and temptation," concludes Thelin, "as the American campus has worked and re-worked its relations with American culture."".
- catalog contributor b5762954.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "American higher education's "peculiar institution" -- The reform canon : the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report -- Responses to reform, 1930 to 1946 -- Regional pride and institutional prestige : college sports and the "booster" campus -- Schools for scandal, 1946 to 1960 -- Faculty control and the irony of reform : the Pacific Coast Conference, 1946 to 1959 -- Critics and controversies, 1960 to 1980 -- From sports page to front page, 1980 to 1990 -- An American dilemma : balancing academics and athletics.".
- catalog description "In Games Colleges Play John Thelin chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990 from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the "Gipper" to the modern era of big budgets, powerful coaches, and pampered players. He describes how "extracurricular" sports programs seldom accorded equal prominence with teaching and research in mission statements or annual reports have become central to the life of many universities. As administrators search for a proper balance between athletics and academics, Thelin observes, this "peculiar institution" in American higher education grows increasingly powerful and controversial. Looking past the playing fields and lavish facilities into board rooms and administrative suites, Thelin finds disturbing patterns of abuse and limited reform and explores the implications of these patterns for today's college presidents, faculty, and students. He examines the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report, the formation of major athletic conferences, the national college basketball scandals after World War II, the dissolution of the Pacific Coast Conference in the 1950s, and the Knight Foundation Report of 1991. Games Colleges Play provides historical background that will inform current policy discussions about the proper place of intercollegiate athletics within the American university. "Intercollegiate athletics has been a perennial source of opportunity and temptation," concludes Thelin, "as the American campus has worked and re-worked its relations with American culture."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 252 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Games colleges play.".
- catalog identifier "0801847168 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Games colleges play.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Games colleges play.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "796/.071/173 20".
- catalog subject "College sports Corrupt practices United States History.".
- catalog subject "College sports Moral and ethical aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "College sports United States Management.".
- catalog subject "College sports United States Organization and administration.".
- catalog subject "GV351 .T43 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "American higher education's "peculiar institution" -- The reform canon : the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report -- Responses to reform, 1930 to 1946 -- Regional pride and institutional prestige : college sports and the "booster" campus -- Schools for scandal, 1946 to 1960 -- Faculty control and the irony of reform : the Pacific Coast Conference, 1946 to 1959 -- Critics and controversies, 1960 to 1980 -- From sports page to front page, 1980 to 1990 -- An American dilemma : balancing academics and athletics.".
- catalog title "Games colleges play : scandal and reform in intercollegiate athletics / John R. Thelin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".