Download or read book The Golden Age of Ivy League Basketball written by Paul A. Hutter and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Record for Ivy League Basketball... Everyone thinks they know the story, but no one really does. Hutter's body of work (bow) ratings methodology is a brilliant conception for the purpose of establishing team and player rankings across generations. -Ted Silary, Philadelphia Daily News...TedSilary.com. Great stuff ...I did not realize that I witnessed the best of Ivy League basketball when I was at Penn. -Steven Greif, University of Pennsylvania. As both a college student during the Golden Age and longtime ACC basketball fan, I have to admit that Duke and North Carolina could not handle Penn and Princeton back in the day. -Russ Frank, Duke '71. The Golden Age of Ivy League Basketball is a "classic basketball book" for the "classic basketball fan." It captures and summarizes the nostalgic post-Bill Bradley era and also serves as a basic primer for Ivy League and NBA basketball history. The book enables classic readers to connect-the-dots associated with this memorable period and clears the fog surrounding their hazy but fond recollections. In addition to being chocked full of data, rankings, comparative analyses and sports trivia, it provides a historical overview pertaining to sports media issues which are of interest to both the "classic" and the "contemporary" basketball fan alike. Front cover: Columbia's Jim McMillian guarding Princeton's Bill Bradley during the Knicks/Lakers 1973 NBA finals. Printed in U.S.A.
Download or read book Outside the Limelight written by Kathy Orton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivy League is a place where basketball is neither a pastime nor a profession. Instead, it is a true passion among players, coaches, and committed sports enthusiasts who share in its every success and setback. Outside the Limelight is the first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it. With painstaking reportage, Kathy Orton vividly captures the internal fervor of the personalities who champion their gameùall the triumphs and disappointments of an Ivy hoop season. Scholarships for student athletes? None, and this is the only Division I conference that does not offer them. The TV spotlight? It barely shines, despite the passion, talent, and commitment of the players. Megadollar contracts from the NBA? Rarely does a player receive an offer. These age-old institutions are better known for turning out presidents, not point guards, and CEOs and captains of industry, not centers on the court. Orton weaves together the stories of coaches and players as they move from fall practice through an entire season and ahead to the NCAA tournament. From Harvard to Penn, Princeton to Cornell and beyond, playersùperhaps more accustomed to pomp and circumstanceùface leaky gyms, endure long bus rides, rigorous courseloads, and unbearable exam schedules. Why? Just to prove they can hang with the big boys despite juggling multiple non-athletic responsibilities? Maybe. But more importantly, for the sincere love of the game. Outside the Limelight provides frontcourt vision for college basketball fans everywhere to achieve an appreciation of this captivating conference and for diehard enthusiasts to gain greater insight into what brings Ivy League basketball to center circle.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball written by Adolph H. Grundman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has long symbolized the idealism of amateur athletic competition. For basketball especially, the AAU provided an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills for the benefit of the team and the sport, not the bottom line. In The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball, Adolph H. Grundman recounts the history of the AAU National Tournament during its golden age, 1921 through 1968. ø Grundman analyzes the early tournaments, examining rule changes, key players, and dominant teams. He explores the rivalries between corporations for amateur dominance after 1935, the competition between the AAU and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for representation in Olympic basketball, the question of just how amateur ?amateur? basketball really was, and the reasons for the demise of postcollegiate amateur basketball. The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball provides the first history of AAU basketball and identifies players and teams that made major contributions to basketball history.
Download or read book The Divine Nature of Basketball written by Ed Breslin and published by Sports Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League describes a season spent as a virtual coach in the Ivy League. Shadowing head coach of Yale men’s basketball James Jones and bird-dogging his team from first practice to final game, Ed Breslin fulfills every college basketball fan’s fantasy of being an NCAA Division I coach. It’s sports journalism in the tradition of George Plimpton. But above all, it’s a celebration of basketball, of participation in life, of gifted mentors and coaches, and of the proper approach to collegiate athletics. And all this in the throwback Ivy League. Where lofty academic requirements merge with high athletic standards. Where every game is an intense and ancient rivalry. Where no league tournament renders the regular season meaningless. Where nearly all league games are played two-a-weekend. Where back-to-back games and five-hour bus trips make for weary legs and heartbreaking upsets. Where coaches have to be teachers and mentors first and foremost. Over the course of the season, Breslin comes to understand that it’s coaches like James Jones, their priorities in order, who realize that lessons learned in sport are often enduringly important, and transferable to other areas of life. They know that the game of basketball, invented in a YMCA gym to vanquish winter blues and channel excess energy, is a divine template for teaching and mentoring. They know that mastery of a demanding skill in youth, and of one’s self, often leads to mastery in adult life: in the arts, in the sciences, in the professions, and in business. The author experienced all this, and more, firsthand. But the most important lesson he learned is that if you ever visit the Yale locker room, whatever else you do: “Don’t step on the Y.” Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Indiana High School Basketball written by Greg Guffey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for all fans of Indiana basketball.
Download or read book The Rivalry written by John Taylor and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA’S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERA In the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup were the sport’s chief offensive weapons. But by the 1970s, the league ruled America’s biggest media markets; contests attracted capacity crowds and national prime-time television audiences. The game was played “above the rim”–and the most marketable of its high-flying stars were black. The credit for this remarkable transformation largely goes to two giants: Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. In The Rivalry, award-winning journalist John Taylor projects the stories of Russell, Chamberlain, and other stars from the NBA’s golden age onto a backdrop of racial tensions and cultural change. Taylor’s electrifying account of two complex men–as well as of a game and a country at a crossroads–is an epic narrative of sports in America during the 1960s. It’s hard to imagine two characters better suited to leading roles in the NBA saga: Chamberlain was cast as the athletically gifted yet mercurial titan, while Russell played the role of the stalwart centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty. Taylor delves beneath these stereotypes, detailing how the two opposed and complemented each other and how they revolutionized the way the game was played and perceived by fans. Competing with and against such heroes as Jerry West, Tom Heinsohn, Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, and Elgin Baylor, and playing for the two greatest coaches of the era, Alex Hannum and the fiery Red Auerbach, Chamberlain and Russell propelled the NBA into the spotlight. But their off-court visibility and success–to say nothing of their candor–also inflamed passions along America’s racial and generational fault lines. In many ways, Russell and Chamberlain helped make the NBA and, to some extent, America what they are today. Filled with dramatic conflicts and some of the great moments in sports history, and building to a thrilling climax–the 1969 final series, the last showdown between Russell and Chamberlain–The Rivalry has at its core a philosophical question: Can determination and a team ethos, embodied by the ultimate team player, Bill Russell, trump sheer talent, embodied by Wilt Chamberlain? Gripping, insightful, and utterly compelling, the story of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain is the stuff of sporting legend. Written with a reporter’s unerring command of events and a storyteller’s flair, The Rivalry will take its place as one of the classic works of sports history.
Download or read book Silver Era Golden Moments written by Paula D. Welch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating history and photographs with reminiscences of athletes and coaches, Silver Era, Golden Moments captures the highlights of nearly a century of women's sportsmanship.
Download or read book The Madness of Ivy Basketball written by Richard Kent and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The madness of ivy basketball takes the reader through the epic 2023-2024 basketball season, Ivy Madness and the NCAA Tournament. There is a focus on all the teams of the Ancient Eight, Xavian Lee, Caden Pierce and Bez Mbeng. Much is said about the internal turmoil in the ivy league regarding topics which are impacted by the changing landscape of college athletics, which include, but are not limited to, NIL, unionization and the House case.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Basketball written by Steven Roseboro and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOAB Book I
Download or read book The Golden Age of Basketball written by Steven A. Roseboro and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Golden Age of Basketball - Volume I" Sports Photojournalist Steven A. Roseboro presents a words-eye view of the most exciting Decade in the History of the NBA, the Eighties. The Book chronicles the remarkable rivalry between Earvin "Magic" Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Bird's Boston Celtics, who won a combined 8 of 10 NBA Championships in the Decade. The competitive excellence of Bird vs. Magic changed the landscape of the league and laid the foundation for the global explosion of Professional Basketball. Volumes I (1979-1984) and II (1985-1989) feature over 500 action photos as Bird, Magic, the Ageless Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the Spectacular Julius "Dr. J" Erving, and Isiah Thomas' Bad Boy Detroit Pistons all battled for League supremacy. Volume I also profiles Hall of Famers Moses Malone, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, James Worthy and George Gervin, who left their indelible imprints on the Decade. Relive Magic Johnson's "Magical" 42 point, 15 rebound, 7 assist masterpiece in Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals, Larry Bird leading the 1981 Celtics back to their customary perch atop the NBA, the go-go World Champion Lakers of 1982, Moses Malone's "Fo-Fo-Fo" Philadelphia 76ers bringing Julius Erving his first NBA title, and the emotionally charged 1984 NBA Final, a seven game classic first meeting between Bird's Celtics and Magic's Lakers. Boston's hard-earned title sets the stage for Volume II, introducing the NBA and the world to the player taken second in the 1984 NBA Draft, the man that would take the game from the floor to above the rim, Michael Jordan.
Download or read book No Better Game Ivy League Basketball and the Pursuit of Racial Equality in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power written by Elliot A. Greenwald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews, through the growth of one distinguished player John Edgar Wideman, the history of an uphill fight by black basketball players in the predominantly white and elite environment of the Ivy League and relates how they employed basketball as a platform for the pursuit of racial equality.
Download or read book Gone for Good written by Stuart Rojstaczer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the clamorous debates on political correctness, the Western canon, and alcohol abuse on campus, many observers have failed to notice the most radical change in the American University: the Golden Age of massive government funding is gone. And, as Stuart Rojstaczer points out in this incisive look at higher education, the consequences are affecting virtually every aspect of university life. Laced with humorous and insightful anecdotes, Gone for Good is a highly personal tour of the university system as it has evolved from the glory days of phenomenal post-WWII growth to the financial stresses that now beset it. Stuart Rojstaczer, professor of Hydrology at Duke, shows how almost unlimited funding during the Cold War years encouraged universities to become unwieldy behemoths--with ever-enlarging faculties and administrative staffs, an explosion of new buildings that are proving costly to maintain, and a parade of programs designed largely to impress other universities. Rojstaczer asserts that despite the scarcity of new funding sources, universities continue to strive for unlimited growth--with disastrous results: skyrocketing tuition (well over $20,000 per year at top tier schools); desperate attempts to increase enrollments (lower standards, inflated grades, and new majors in some rather implausible areas of study); and increasing pressure on faculty who already spend more time researching than teaching to raise more money through research grants. The time has come, Rojstaczer argues, to abandon an outmoded idea of growth and create a leaner university system more beneficial to both students and society. For parents, students, and anyone interested higher education, Gone for Good offers a vivid account of the crossroads where universities now stand--and a compelling argument about which path they should take.
Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1934 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Football written by Michael Oriard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the newsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Asking what football meant to these millions who followed it either casually or passionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a media-created world of football and explores its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society. Football, claims Oriard, served as an agent of "Americanization" for immigrant groups but resisted attempts at true integration and racial equality, while anxieties over the domestication and affluence of middle-class American life helped pave the way for the sport's rise in popularity during the Cold War. Underlying these threads is the story of how the print and broadcast media, in ways specific to each medium, were powerful forces in constructing the football culture we know today.
Download or read book American Past written by Joseph Robert Conlin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Past emphasizes political history, yet provides balanced coverage of social, economic, and cultural events. Conlins lively, literary narrative captures and keeps student interest. This textbook is appropriate for the American History survey course at both two-year and four-year schools.
Download or read book The American Past written by Joseph R. Conlin and published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Past written by Joseph Robert Conlin and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains chapters 26 through 51 of the comprehensive text.
