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1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
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RE: 1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
(04-19-2020 01:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_a...letics.pdf

FYI, the Carnegie Foundation is not, and has no relation to, Carnegie Mellon University, which in 1929, was known as Carnegie Tech (Mellon Institute at that time was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh).

The Carnegie Institute and Museums also have no affiliation to Carnegie Mellon University.
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RE: 1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
(04-19-2020 01:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_a...letics.pdf

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~ 3. Football
The first authoritative reference to football as a college pastime concerns the Prince-
ton of 1820. In 1827, Bloody Monday at Harvard included among its activities a con- test at football between freshmen and sophomores. The game was played at West Point between 1840 and 1844, and at about the same time class football contests were popular at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Amherst and Bowdoin. Accounts of these matches indicate that the game resembled modern soccer rather than the college foot- ball of the present day.”
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RE: 1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
(04-19-2020 08:10 PM)Garrettabc Wrote:  
(04-19-2020 01:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_a...letics.pdf

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~ 3. Football
The first authoritative reference to football as a college pastime concerns the Prince-
ton of 1820. In 1827, Bloody Monday at Harvard included among its activities a con- test at football between freshmen and sophomores. The game was played at West Point between 1840 and 1844, and at about the same time class football contests were popular at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Amherst and Bowdoin. Accounts of these matches indicate that the game resembled modern soccer rather than the college foot- ball of the present day.”

"football" used refer to a number of sports played on a field on foot. As opposed to on horseback.
04-20-2020 09:14 AM
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RE: 1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
(04-20-2020 09:14 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  
(04-19-2020 08:10 PM)Garrettabc Wrote:  
(04-19-2020 01:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_a...letics.pdf

Page 39


~ 3. Football
The first authoritative reference to football as a college pastime concerns the Prince-
ton of 1820. In 1827, Bloody Monday at Harvard included among its activities a con- test at football between freshmen and sophomores. The game was played at West Point between 1840 and 1844, and at about the same time class football contests were popular at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Amherst and Bowdoin. Accounts of these matches indicate that the game resembled modern soccer rather than the college foot- ball of the present day.”

"football" used refer to a number of sports played on a field on foot. As opposed to on horseback.

I’m sure it was much different back then. I knew at one time you got more points kicking rather than running it in. Just thought it was interesting history, something I have never heard of until now.
04-20-2020 10:44 AM
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RE: 1929 Carnegie Mellon study on college athletics
(04-19-2020 01:18 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_a...letics.pdf

This was meant to be a Big Tent Revival of true amateurism (no recruiting, no scholarships, etc.) but it fell flat...

A very few schools did show up to clap in praise, but still more stood in the background and muttered that THEY weren't sinful. Still others pointed at their neighbors.

But again, it all fell flat.... Why? Because the FANS didn't give a rat's behind about "amateurism". The schools pretended to, though, and when actual amateurism was officially abandoned in the 1950's, the Cartel began to propagandize the word so as, along with the invented term "student athlete," not to recognize athletes as employees.

Really great system we've got going here in the good ole USA... 03-pissed
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