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Lucas, John A.; Smith, Ronald A. – 1978
This history of sports and athletic activities in America covers a time span from the close of the sixteenth century to the present time. It is divided into three major sections. The first, "Colonial and Early American Sport," narrates the early moral and ethical attitudes of the Puritans and follows the changes in attitudes and introduction of…
Descriptors: American History, Athletes, Athletics, Baseball
Cady, Edwin H. – 1978
The value of a strong athletic program to the academic community is discussed along with proper methods of recruitment, uses of grants-in-aid, renewal and reform of sports programs, and solutions to the countless problems the "Big Game" generates. Replete with examples from literature, anthropology, psychology, and sociology, as well as…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Black Students, Community Influence
Direct linkJames, Carl E. – Canadian Scholars' Press Inc, 2005
Dr. Carl E. James is well known for his work in the area of the Sociology of Sport. Race in Play is on the continuum of his earlier research in the sociology of sport, and youth, race, and education. James takes the reader on an edifying walk through the structural, institutional community which supports and sustains sports, at the same time…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Minority Groups, Womens Athletics, Sociology
