Name: The History of American College Football By Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)
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The History of American College Football: Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform by Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

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.

The History of American College Football Reviews

Readers should pay particular attention to the subtitle because this book is not a history of college football written from the standpoint of the sport's development, traditions, major programs, and the like. Although some aspects of these topics are interwoven throughout the collection, the ten essays Anderson and Fallucca (both, Univ. of South Carolina) bring together have a different purpose. This volume is part of a broader series on the history of higher education and focuses a critical lens on the impact of football on colleges and universities, specifically in relation to policy, culture, and reform. Beyond this commonality, the essays offer a truly quirky hodgepodge of football-related subjects. This is not meant as negative criticism. Rather, it is fair to recognize that this relatively short volume covers a lot of ground, including discussions of deaf football players who were students at Gallaudet College at the turn of the 20th century, protests at Cal State campuses in the 1960s, Division III traveling trophies, and Mormon identity as intertwined with BYU football. Every chapter is well written, cites primary sources, and features at least one illustration. Libraries with extensive collections on the history of higher education or college athletics, especially football, should acquire this book. - B. D. Singleton, California State University, CHOICE Recommended

About Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

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.

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9780367687168

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036768716X

Title

The History of American College Football: Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform by Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

Author

Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

Series

Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

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Hardback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2021-05-20

Number of pages

214

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The History of American College Football Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

The History of American College Football by Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

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The History of American College Football: Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform by Christian Anderson (University of South Carolina, USA)

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