D.J. Wenden
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198229742
- eISBN:
- 9780191678912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229742.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the history of sport at the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. It suggests that during the first half of the 20th century sport played a large part in the ...
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This chapter examines the history of sport at the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. It suggests that during the first half of the 20th century sport played a large part in the university both as an activity for students and as an influence on the image of Oxford to the outside world. However, during the 1950s, university dons became more critical of the time spent by students on sport. In addition, university undergraduates criticised the public school tradition of worship of organized games and this criticism was intensified by student radicalism in the late 1960s.Less
This chapter examines the history of sport at the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. It suggests that during the first half of the 20th century sport played a large part in the university both as an activity for students and as an influence on the image of Oxford to the outside world. However, during the 1950s, university dons became more critical of the time spent by students on sport. In addition, university undergraduates criticised the public school tradition of worship of organized games and this criticism was intensified by student radicalism in the late 1960s.
Howard P. Chudacoff
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039782
- eISBN:
- 9780252097881
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039782.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This book 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 ...
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This book 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 programs; the boom in television money; the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues; Title IX's transformation of women's athletics; the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s; the ongoing controversy over paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments. A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, the book reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow.Less
This book 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 programs; the boom in television money; the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues; Title IX's transformation of women's athletics; the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s; the ongoing controversy over paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments. A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, the book reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow.
