Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization - Couverture souple

Solberg, Winton U

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252083245 ISBN 13 : 9780252083242

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2018

Synopsis

Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game.

Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between higher education and collegiate football in the Big Ten's first fifty years. This formative era saw debates over eligibility and amateurism roil the sport. In particular, faculty concerned with academics clashed with coaches, university presidents, and others who played to win. Solberg follows the conference's successful early efforts to put the best interests of institutions and athletes first. Yet, as he shows, commercial concerns undid such work after World War I as sports increasingly eclipsed academics. By the 1940s, the Big Ten's impact on American sports was undeniable. It had shaped the development of intercollegiate athletics and college football nationwide while serving as a model for other athletic conferences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Winton U. Solberg (d. 2019) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His many books include The University of Illinois, 1894-1904: The Shaping of the University and Redeem the Time: The Puritan Sabbath in Early America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252083245
• ISBN 13: 9780252083242
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
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