More Than Just a Game
This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities.Then in 1954, the aIvy Groupa announced the adoption of a yearly round-robin schedule in football to start in 1956. ... Pennsylvania, which had created its football schedule to include games against the University of Michigan and other big-time schools before the decision, went ... new offensive formationsathe I- formation by John McKay at the University of Southern California; the veer by Bill Yeoman atanbsp;...
| Title | : | More Than Just a Game |
| Author | : | Kathryn Jay |
| Publisher | : | Columbia University Press - 2013-08-13 |
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