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ERIC Number: EJ148385
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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The Commercialization and Functional Rationalization of College Football: Its Origins
Westby, David L.; Sack, Allen
Journal of Higher Education, 47, 6, 625-47, Nov/Dec 76
The process of introducing commercialization and functional rationalization into a game originally played for fun and controlled by the participants is shown to have occurred at Yale as that institution was brought under the control of representatives of the newly rich class of bankers and industrialists coming to power in the nineteenth century. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Economic Climate, Educational Change, Football, Higher Education, History, Social Influences, Social Status
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Identifiers: Amateur Athletes; Commercialism; Harvard University MA; Yale University CT