52: Turf War: A History of College Sports

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this episode, Brian, Peter, and Ed unpack the origins of college sports and the ways universities originally justified athletics on campus. From the first collegiate PHYS ED program at Amherst College to the little-known story about the integration of the University of Alabama’s football team - the hosts discover why college sports even exist in the first place.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this episode of Backstory about the role of sports and higher education.
0:05.7	If you like the show, check out BackstoryRadio.org for more episodes.
0:11.2	This episode of Backstory was originally broadcast in 2012.
0:15.3	Major funding for Backstory is provided by an anonymous donor, the National Endowment
0:19.3	for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation,
0:24.8	and the Arthur Vining Davis foundations.
0:30.4	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:38.8	Welcome to the show.
0:40.0	I'm Brian Ballot, 20th Century Guy.
0:42.6	I'm Adair's 19th Century Guy.
0:44.4	And I'm Peter Onough, 18th Century Guy.
0:47.0	Okay, guys.
0:48.2	It's finally here, March Madness, weeks of wall-to-wall college basketball coverage.
0:53.4	I can't get enough of it.
0:54.8	Oh, yeah.
0:55.6	March Madness is America's second largest sporting event in terms of income, second only to the Super Bowl.
1:02.2	And anytime you get that much money and that much hype around college sports,
1:06.8	people seem to start looking for the next big controversy.
1:10.8	Documents from an ongoing federal probe into bribery and fraud,
1:14.2	allege a shadow world involving big money, secret deals, and marquee names from the world of college basketball.
1:20.4	The picture painted by the charges brought today is not a pretty one.
1:26.8	Coaches at some of the nation's top programs soliciting and accepting cash bribes.
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