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amateurism vs professionalism
American sports development
athletic reform movements
Author_Raymond Schmidt
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college football history
commercialization of sports
early 20th-century sports
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evolution of American football culture
football
intercollegiate athletics
media and sports expansion
NCAA history
origins of modern college football
post-World War I America
rise of big-time college sports
sports and higher education
sports culture and society
sports history
transformation of college athletics in the 1920s
university athletics
Product details
- ISBN 9780815608868
- Weight: 814g
- Dimensions: 183 x 261mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2007
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Shaping College Football is the story of the intercollegiate gridiron sport in the years immediately after World War I when the game underwent monumental changes that transformed it into one of America's fundamental sporting attractions and a commercial entity that would be recognizable to any twenty-first century fan. Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity. Offering the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's ""Golden Era,"" Schmidt covers issues ranging from the shift of power away from the game's pioneering schools, through the real evolution of forward passing, to stadium building and the decade-long struggle over the game's growing overemphasis that culminated in the legendary Carnegie Report of 1929.
Raymond Schmidt is the author of Two-eyed League: The Illinois-Iowa of 1890-1892 and Football's Stars of Summer. He lives in Ventura, Ca.
