BackStory

The following are a list of sources used or consulted in the making of the BackStory episode “Turf War: A History of College Sports”, broadcast in September 2012. You can listen to the entire episode here.

Mentioned on the Show:

• “The Shame of College Sports” by Taylor Branch

• Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics by John Thelin

• Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the 18th Century to the Present by Helen Horowitz

• Career in Crisis: Paul “Bear” Bryant and the 1971 Season of Change by John David Briley

 Outside Links:

•  See footage from a 1903 football game between Princeton and Yale.
• Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29: A 2008 documentary about a famous 1968 game.

Bibliography:

• Bowen, William G. and Sarah A. Levin. Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

• Bowen, William G. and James L. Shulman. The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

• Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.

• Perry, Edward Delavan. The American University. Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, 2010.

• Sperber, Murray. Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2001.

• Watterson, John Sayle. College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.