COLLEGE FOOTBALL: HISTORY, SPECTACLE, CONTROVERSY.Pp. 456. Illustrated. The Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. (www.press.jhu.edu) The author, an assistant professor at James Madison University “JMU” redirects here. For the university in Liverpool, England, see Liverpool John Moores University. For the public-policy college at Michigan State University, see . , has produced an awesomely researched historical text on America's most glamorous sport, college football. Actually, very little of the "glamour" appears in this book. The thrust of College Football is at the machinations that turned a simple body-contact sport into a hugely lucrative quasi-professional enterprise. The author lays it all out as thoroughly as it has ever been done from the grass roots grass roots pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. People or society at a local level rather than at the center of major political activity. Often used with the. 2. The groundwork or source of something. of the 1880s to the coming of Red Grange, the Carnegie Report of 1929, the academic scandals, the influence of television coverage, and the 20-year riveting chess game between the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association , led by Walter Byers, and the CFA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986) Signed into law in 1986, the CFA was a significant step forward in criminalizing unauthorized access to computer systems and networks. The Act applies to "federal interest computers" that include any system used by the U.S. under Chuck Neinas. The author concludes with a few uninspired solutions to the problem of conducting a corporate sport enterprise within an idealistic educational system. |
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