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[Course Piazza site](https://piazza.com/class/jdi2i060siz5qy)

Week 1, January 22: Were things better in the past?  
Readings: The College Athlete, by Henry Beech Needham. McClure's Magazine. Part I: June 1905.

Week 2, January 29: American sports before football  
Readings: Smith, Chapters I-IV. The College Athlete, by Henry Beech Needham. McClure's Magazine. Part II: July 1905. Kenneth C.Davis,[Schools of Hard Knocks](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26davis.html), NYT.

Review of sources: Crimson, other newspapers, Presidents' Reports, Sibley's Private Journal

Week 3, February 5: MEET AT HARVARD ARCHIVES, PUSEY LIBRARY. How to do archival research.  
Harvard and sports history. Readings: Smith, Chapters V-VII. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, [Saints and Their Bodies](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly/Volume_1/Number_5/Saints,_and_Their_Bodies), *Atlantic Monthly*, March 1858, 582-595 (skim); Henry Lee Higginson, [Remarks at the dedication of Soldiers Field](/file_url/303) (1890).

Week 4, February 12: Guest: Former Sports Illustrated sporswriter Richard "Dick" Friedman '73. Details to follow.  
Readings: Smith, Chapters VII-XI.

(February 19 is Presidents Day. No class.)

Week 5, February 26: Smith, Chapters XII-XV and Epilogue.

Week 6, March 5: Discussion of project ideas.   
Reading: Smith, XIII-Epilogue; Young, Part I.  
**Friday, March 9: Project proposals due**

(March 12 is during spring break. No class.)

Week 7, March 19: Special guest: John Powers of the Boston Globe. [Interview](http://www.row2k.com/features/927/row2k-Interview--Sportswriter-John-Powers-of-the-Boston-Globe/), recent [story](https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/10/21/gevvie-stone-wins-record-single-sculls-crown/cm62YPzVH2hCauaTe5ocyO/story.html).   
Readings: The NCAA and the Ivy League. *Readings:* [*1954 Ivy Group Agreement*](http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/imagepenn/ivy1954.pdf)*;* [*Ivy League Manual*](http://ivyserver.princeton.edu/ivy/downloads/manuals/Ivymanual2011-12%20copy.pdf) (out of date);[ Abridged NCAA Manuals](http://www.ncaapublications.com/p-4410-2015-16-ncaa-division-i-abridged-manuals.aspx).

Week 8, March 26: Money and college sports today. Readings: [The Economics of College Sports](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=918743), Lawrence M. Kahn

Week 9, April 2: Guest: Jim Miller, former director of financial aid at Harvard and former dean of Admissions at Brown, and current member of Harvard admissions staff

Readings: Young, Part II.  
**Project outline/draft due**

Week 10, April 9: Project Reports I  
Readings: George Santayana, [Philosophy on the Bleachers](/files/harrylewis/files/philosophy_on_the_bleachers.pdf), *Harvard Monthly,* vol. 18, no. 5, 1894.

Week 11, April 16: Marathon day!

Week 12, April 23: Project Reports II

**Tuesday**, May 1, 5:00pm: **Projects due**