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Academics vs. Athletics: Is Reform Possible?

Academics vs. Athletics: Is Reform Possible?

The history of collegiate sports reform and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and its influence on academics and athletic reform can be traced to five major sports reform movements during the 20th century. These include early football reforms involving President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, the PresidentÆs Report on sports reform produced by the American Council on Education (ACE) in 1952, the PresidentÆs Hanford Report of 1974, and a series of reform proposals known as the Knight Commission Report of the early 1990s and in 2001. Despite these attempts at reform of athletics on colleges and universities across America and others like them such as the Carnegie Report of 1929, none of these reforms or reports has established reconciliation between academics and college athletics.

At the beginning of the century, muckraking journalism was responsible for drawing attention to the widespread nature of brutality, abuse, and scandal in collegiate athletic programs. The Big Three sports institutions, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, met with Roosevelt at a White House summit to discuss reforms and rules that would make the games safer and more ethical. An alleged threat by Roosevelt to abolish football if reform attempts failed led to a reform group now known as the NCAA. Harvard football coach Bill Reid promised Roosevelt reform was forthcoming. In order to elicit the adoption of 19 rules aimed at reform, Reid had to threaten members of the newly formed committee, ôEither these 19 rules go through or there will be no football at Harvard,ö (DeAngelis 2004, 1).

Recommended reforms were again proposed by the ACE Commission of 1952,m calling for presidential reform of collegiate athletics to promote academic integrity and enhance the safety of collegiate athletics. The ACE proposed a number of reforms meant to broaden the role of collegiate presidents in ensuring aca...

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