The development of inter-college athletics in America is traced from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, looking in particular at the influence of Harvard and Yale.
Ronald A. Smith is Professor Emeritus of Exercise and Sport Science at Pennsylvania State University. He has written, edited, or collaborated on several books on sport history, among them American Baseball, Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905, and Saga of American Sport.
Recensioner i media
`Sports and Freedom is the best book ever written on the history of American intercollegiate athletics.' Reviews in American History
