52: Turf War: A History of College Sports
On this episode, Brian, Peter, and Ed 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
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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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On this episode, Brian, Peter, and Ed 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 - the hosts discover why
college sports even exist in the first place.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 - the hosts discover why
college sports even exist in the first place.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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