San Antonio College Library

A history of college basketball in text and photographs includes contributions by "Sports Illustrated" award-winning photographers and such Hall of Fame writers as Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff, and Gary Smith.

From the Publisher: This richly documented book traces the evolution of American sports from the colonial period to the present. The narrative is organized around the argument that sports have been a significant social force throughout American history. Emphasizes the social, economic, and cultural interaction between sports and larger issues, such as gender, race, and class. Includes 50 photographs of key events and figures in the history of American...

Provides scores, line-ups, and statistics for the top seventy college teams as well as annual reviews of college football seasons from 1953-2006, and includes other information about collegiate players, coaches, and teams of the last fifty years.

Discusses the history of games and sports from Colonial days to the present.

African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride. Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black...

"Although the Supreme Court did not reverse their 1896 decision of "separate but equal" in the Plessy v. Ferguson case until more than fifty years later, sports laid a foundation for social change long before our judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating sports teams to include white and black athletes alike, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and lows, the trials...

"The racial makeup of sports in the United States serves as a classic example of racism in the 21st century. This book examines the racial disparities in sports and the continuing significance of race in 21st-century America, debunking the myth of a "postracial society." Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. However, there is plenty of evidence that race still...

Asks why sport has at times challenged the status quo with regard to race and civil rights, and at other times reinforced it. Examines how blacks broke the color barrier, and raises such issues as whether blacks were able to maintain representation in a particular sport, and whether the entrance of blacks changed the public's perception of that sport.

Given in honor ofEmken and Sherilyn Lynton by the Aggieland Rotary Club of Bryan-College Station.

The USA today college football encyclopedia is the result of fifteen years of research by authors Bob Boyles and Paul Guido. In this book you will find information such as: recaps of more than 8,000 games; detailed reviews of more than fifty-seven college football seasons; complete season-by-season lineups and records of more than seventy major programs; personality profiles of some of the game's biggest stars and coaches; season-by-season award winners,...