This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge riv

This volume provides unique insight into how American colleges and universities have been significantly impacted and shaped by college football, and considers h

Many books have been written on the evils of commercialism in college sport, and the hypocrisy of payments to athletes from alumni and other sources outside the