The Rise of Intercollegiate Football and Its Portrayal in American Popu

The Rise of Intercollegiate Football and Its Portrayal in American Popular LiteratureWith the success of the Merriwell literature, juvenile edition fable became abundant. In all subsequent stories, the model for traditional juvenile sport fiction, even continuing today, is the illustrious Frank Merriwell (Oriard, 1982). As the Merriwell series dwindled to a halt in the 1910s, books began to dominate the world of childrens sport fiction. Oriard (1982) suggested the popularity of these books go up because the juvenile sports novel combined the action of the dime novels with the middle-class pietism of the Alger (rags-to-riches) novel (p. 47). In 1912, the social class Gilbert Patten retired as the rootage of the Merriwell stories, Owen Johnson published his childrens novel, Stover at Yale. Dink Stover looms as the hero of Johnsons novel, which follows young Dink from his freshman year to the beginning of his senior year at the illustrious Yale University. Johnsons novel while simi lar to the Merriwell series, establishes a new era in juvenile sport literature that starts the increase process of the collegiate athlete-hero.Many of Frank Merriwells challenges did occur on the playing field at Yale in a multitude of sports that include football, baseball, crew, and track. During most of these events, however, the precocious hero and his comrades usually solved a secret or righted some wrong. In addition, Merriwell left college for a few years, and this postpone from college life enabled the multifaceted young man to write a play, grease ones palms a champion thoroughbred horse, and travel the world in his pursual to stamp out all wrongdoing, all activities contrary to the ideals of amateurism. Stover receives the hero latria typical o... ...mith, R.A. (1988). sports and Freedom The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics. New York, NY Oxford University Press.Smith, R.A. (1993). History of Amateurism in workforces Intercollegiate Athletics The Continuance of a 19th-Century Anachronism in America. QUEST. Vol. 45, pp. 430-447.Standish, B.L. (1900). Frank Merriwells Policy or, flowing Columbia for Practice. TipTop Weekly. zero(prenominal) 238.Standish, B.L. (1901). Dick Merriwell at Fardale or, The Wonder of School. Tip Top Weekly. No. 291.Thelin, J.R. (1994). Games Colleges Play Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics. Baltimore John Hopkins University Press.Valenzi, K.D., Ed. (1990). Champion of Sport The Life and Times of Walter Camp, 1859-1925. Charlottesville, VA Howell Press, Inc.Watterson, J.S. (1988). Inventing Modern Football. American Heritage. Sept./Oct., pp. 102-113.