TURF WAR [2016]: A HISTORY OF COLLEGE SPORTS [rebroadcast]

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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people are t...

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With less than 2% of ESPN March Madness brackets still perfect, the
madness may be more like sadness for many college basketball fans
right now. In this episode, the American History Guys unpack the
origins of college sports and the ways universities originally
justified athletics on campus. From the first collegiate PHYS ED
program at Amherst College to the little-known story about the
integration of the University of Alabama’s football team, Peter, Ed
and Brian discover why college sports even exist in the first
place.

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