In 1905, twenty-six-year-old Bill Reid, a former Harvard athlete, was wooed back to the campus by the offer of a salary higher than that of any faculty member and approaching that of long-time president Charles W. Eliot. His mission: beat Yale. With the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, Reid set down day by day an account of his activities on and off the field. In so doing, he provides clear evidence of what many have suspected for a long time: that the unethical conduct so common in modern-day ...
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In 1905, twenty-six-year-old Bill Reid, a former Harvard athlete, was wooed back to the campus by the offer of a salary higher than that of any faculty member and approaching that of long-time president Charles W. Eliot. His mission: beat Yale. With the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, Reid set down day by day an account of his activities on and off the field. In so doing, he provides clear evidence of what many have suspected for a long time: that the unethical conduct so common in modern-day football has roots in the early history of the game and has not been limited to the so-called football factories. Reid offhandedly discusses such topics as spying on other teams, pressuring faculty members to give players passing grades, requiring that players cut classes to attend practice, and hiding injuries from players to keep them on the field. By coincidence, Reid kept his diary during the single most inflammatory year in the history of college football. In the fall of 1905, President Roosevelt called a White House conference, attended by Reid and the coaches at Yale and Princeton, to discuss brutality and unethical conduct in college football. Harvard was among a number of institutions that considered dropping the sport in 1905, and a few actually did, including Columbia, California, Northwestern, and Stanford. After the death of a Union College player, a national conference was held to discuss the future of college football, which resulted in the formation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Sport and Society. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover with DJ, tight binding, 356 pages with photos.
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VG in NF jacket. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover in red cloth, in black, white and red jacket with b/w photo of Reid to front, 8vo. xxxvii + 354pp. + series list. Index, chronology, footnotes with chapters. B/W plates on paper. VG/NF. Book has moderately splayed front board with no effect on strong binding and hinges; mild foxing just beginning to page edges. Cloth clean and bright; pages clean and unmarked. Jacket has mild clouding to black background, minute touch of surface loss at upper rear hinge end. Jacket in Brodart.
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Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Book ISBN: 0-252-02047-2. "Sport and Society" series. Indexed. Edited byRonald A. Smith b/w photos. near fine, vg+ dj w/ some waterstains, red cloth, tight 354 pgs.
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Good jacket. Very Good. Very good with good dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992.
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As New in as new jacket. First printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. xxxviii+ 354 pp. with chronology, index. In 1905, 26 year old Bill Reid, a former Harvard athlete, was wooed back to the campus by an offer of a salary higher than that of any faculty member. He had one mission---beat Yale on the football field. Reid, with the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, kept a day-by-day account of his activities on and off the field. Interestingly, Reid's diary includes details on some of the unethical conduct so common in modern-day football: spying on other teams, pressueing faculty members to give players passing grades, hiding injuries, etc. Coincidentally, 1905 was also a watershed year for college football as President Theodore Roosevelt called a White House conference with the coaches of Yale, Harvard and Princeton to address the brutality and unethical conduct in the game, a session that would lead to the creation of the NCAA.
