American College Athletics Bulletin Number Twenty-three

American College Athletics, a study by Howard J. Savage, Harold W. Bentley, John T. McGovern, and Dean F. Smiley, M.D., examines the history, conduct, and values of sports and games in American universities, colleges, and schools; the development of the modern amateur status, the administrative control of college athletics; athletic participation and its results; the hygiene of athletic training; the coach in college athletics; athletic conferences and associations; the recruiting and subsidizing of athletes; and the relation of the press to college sport. The report includes an appendix that sets forth statistical materials and excerpts from correspondence to recruit college athletes. A preface by Henry S. Pritchett on "Athletics, an Element in the Evolution of the American University" begins the volume. American College Athletics was undertaken at the request of the Association of American Colleges, the Association of colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and other representative bodies.