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Author : Frank Presbrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Athletics at Princeton written by Frank Presbrey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Shulman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840694
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Game of Life written by James L. Shulman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission? James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River, the authors analyze data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large. Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.
Author : William G. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840708
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Game written by William G. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about higher education will find it hard to wish away the evidence that athletic recruitment is problematic even at those schools that do not offer athletic scholarships. Thanks to an expansion of the College and Beyond database that resulted in the highly influential studies The Shape of the River and The Game of Life, the authors are able to analyze in great detail the backgrounds, academic qualifications, and college outcomes of athletes and their classmates at thirty-three academically selective colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships. They show that recruited athletes at these schools are as much as four times more likely to gain admission than are other applicants with similar academic credentials. The data also demonstrate that the typical recruit is substantially more likely to end up in the bottom third of the college class than is either the typical walk-on or the student who does not play college sports. Even more troubling is the dramatic evidence that recruited athletes "underperform:" they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. Over the last four decades, the athletic-academic divide on elite campuses has widened substantially. This book examines the forces that have been driving this process and presents concrete proposals for reform. At its core, Reclaiming the Game is an argument for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling--instead of undermining--the educational missions of our colleges and universities.
Author : James P. Quirk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146578
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Hard Ball written by James P. Quirk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money. Many pro teams appear to be virtual "cash machines," generating astronomical annual revenues, but their owners seem willing to uproot them and move to any city willing to promise increased profits. At the same time, mayors continue to cook up "sweetheart deals" that lavish benefits on wealthy teams while imposing crushing financial hardships on cities that are already strapped with debt. To fans today, professional sports teams often look more like professional extortionists. In Hard Ball, James Quirk and Rodney Fort take on a daunting challenge: explaining exactly how things have gotten to this point and proposing a way out. Both authors are professional economists who specialize in the economics of sports. Their previous book, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports, is widely acknowledged as the Bible of sports economics. Here, however, they are writing for sports fans who are trying to make sense out of the perplexing world of pro team sports. It is not money, in itself, that is the cause of today's problems, they assert. In fact, the real problem stems from one simple fact: pro sports are monopolies that are fully sanctioned by the U.S. government. Eliminate the monopolies, say Quirk and Fort, and all problems can be solved. If the monopolies are allowed to persist, so will today's woes. The authors discuss all four major pro team sports: baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Hard Ball is filled with anecdotes, case studies, and factual information that are brought together here for the first time. Quirk and Fort devote chapters to the main protagonists in the pro sports saga--media, unions, players, owners, politicians, and leagues--before they offer their own prescription for correcting the ills that afflict sports today. The result is an engaging and persuasive book that is sure to be widely read, cited, and debated. It is essential reading for every fan.
Author : Frank Presbrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781017009996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Athletics at Princeton: A History written by Frank Presbrey and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Welch Suggs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826543
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Place on the Team written by Welch Suggs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to millions of young women previously locked out. Journalist Welch Suggs chronicles both the law's successes and failures-the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics. Enlivened with tales from Suggs's reportage, the book clears up the muddle of interpretation and opinion surrounding Title IX. It provides not only a lucid description of how courts and colleges have read (and misread) the law, but also compelling portraits of the people who made women's sports a vibrant feature of American life. What's more, the book provides the first history of the law's evolution since its passage in 1972. Suggs details thirty years of struggles for equal rights on the playing field. Schools dragged their feet, offering token efforts for women and girls, until the courts made it clear that women had to be treated on par with men. Those decisions set the stage for some of the most celebrated moments in sports, such as the Women's World Cup in soccer and the Women's Final Four in NCAA basketball. Title IX is not without its critics. Wrestlers and other male athletes say colleges have cut their teams to comply with the law, and Suggs tells their stories as well. With the chronicles of Pat Summitt, Anson Dorrance, and others who shaped women's sports, A Place on the Team is a must-read not only for sports buffs but also for parents of every young woman who enters the arena of competitive sports.
Author : Princeton University. Athletic Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Athletic Organizations of Princeton University written by Princeton University. Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Princeton University. Athletic Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Athletic Organizations of Princeton University written by Princeton University. Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870596
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Walter Tandy Murch written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete monograph of artist Walter Tandy Murch explores the life of an unsung yet remarkable artist whose paintings and illustrations of everyday objects and mechanical devices are familiar yet mysterious, or as George Lucas puts it, “in a magical middle.” Walter Tandy Murch (1907–1967) is best known for his enigmatic, dreamlike still life paintings of everyday objects and mechanical devices in a style that falls between Magic Realist, Surrealist, and Realist. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of his work, including his striking commercial work for magazines and his paintings from the extensive collection of George Lucas. Lucas calls himself a “fanboy” of Murch’s art—paintings and drawings he describes as simultaneously “functional and dreamy, simple and complicated; they are quiet yet grab your attention.” The tension of these opposing reactions draws viewers into Murch’s still lifes, which caught the attention of famed art dealer Betty Parsons, who also represented artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Agnes Martin. Murch showed his work at Parsons’s gallery for nearly thirty years. With illuminating essays and extensive plates sections displaying Murch’s works, this celebration of an exceptionally talented and visionary artist is long overdue.
Author : Princeton University. Athletic Association
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Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Princeton University Athletic Association written by Princeton University. Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374708711
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book A Sense of Where You Are written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
Author : Judd Garrett
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ISBN 13 : 9781735263809
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)
Download or read book No Wind written by Judd Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can come back to your memorable places, but you can never go back to the time that made those places memorable. Jake Pearson, an introspective kid who takes life more seriously than most, longs for the simpler times of his youth while striving for a life beyond his reach. As he grows from a boy to a man, Jake struggles to fit in, be it baseball, school, friendship, and relationships. Shadowed by the eternal eye of judgement, Jake searches for a larger meaning to his life, and pursues dreams greater than his abilities. His life choices alternately reward him and torment him. And through it all, the ocean watches, and waits.
Author : Princeton University. Athletic Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Histories and Records of the Athletic Organizations of Princeton University, January, 1897 written by Princeton University. Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Princeton University
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666038005
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Athletic Organizations of Princeton University written by Princeton University and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Athletic Organizations of Princeton University: Their Histories, Records and Constitutions; June, 1891 There is also an Advisory Committee of five gradu ates, chosen by the Executive Committee, subject to the ratification of the College, whose powers are mainly ad visory, but who have the power of veto in the election of Captains and in permanent changes proposed for the Athletic grounds or buildings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Wayne L. Winston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691189293
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Mathletics written by Wayne L. Winston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use math to improve performance and predict outcomes in professional sports Mathletics reveals the mathematical methods top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance, and gives math enthusiasts the practical skills they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports—and maybe even gain the outside edge to winning bets. This second edition features new data, new players and teams, and new chapters on soccer, e-sports, golf, volleyball, gambling Calcuttas, analysis of camera data, Bayesian inference, ridge regression, and other statistical techniques. After reading Mathletics, you will understand why baseball teams should almost never bunt; why football overtime systems are unfair; why points, rebounds, and assists aren’t enough to determine who’s the NBA’s best player; and more.
Author : Joseph Edward Raycroft
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Intramural Athletics at Princeton written by Joseph Edward Raycroft and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles William Kennedy
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Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book College Athletics written by Charles William Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
