Murray Sperber

Biographic Data

ID5183173
NAMEMurray Sperber
GIVEN NAMESMurray
FAMILY NAMESperber
SIGNATURESPERBER M
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University Bloomington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX2

  • Robert Pruter. The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930

    Murray SperberARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Robert Pruter. The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930. Get access Robert Pruter. The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930. (Sports and Entertainment.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2013. Pp. xx, 417. $49.95. Murray Sperber Murray Sperber University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • College Football

    Murray Sperber, John Sayle WattersonARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 1

    Popular histories of college football celebrate the long list of famous teams, coaches, and All-American players and fail to investigate why the sport became so popular and how it maintained its appeal through economic depressions, wars, and a multitude of other so-cioeconomic events. At times John Sayle Watterson attempts to answer these questions, but he mainly becomes sidetracked into a detailed narrative about the critics of college football …

  • Beer and circus

    Murray SperberBOOKBeer and Circus2001

    "Murray Sperber takes us beyond the headlines and the public controversies to explore the profound and tragic impact of big-time intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate education. Sperber explodes cherished myths about college sports, particularly at "Big-time U's," the large public research universities with high-profile men's football and basketball teams playing at the top level of the NCAA." "Using research culled from students, faculty, a…

  • The Game of Life

    Open AccessRandolph M Feezell, James L Shulman et al.ARTICLEAcademe2001

    List of Figures vii List of Ta61es xiii Prelude: Four Snapshots xv Preface xxv Chapter 1. The Institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective 1 Chapter 2. The Admissions Game: Recruiting Male Athletes and the Implications of Selection 29 Chapter 3. The College Game: Academic Outcomes for Men 59 Chapter 4. Men's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Jobs, Earnings 87 Chapter 5. The Development of Women's Athletic Pro…

  • Onward to Victory

    Ronald A Smith, Murray SperberARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College Sports. By Murray Sperber. (New York: Holt, 1998. xxviii, 578 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8050-3865-5.) Get access Ronald A. Smith Ronald A. Smith Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 298, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568047 Published:…

  • The American Marathon

    Murray Sperber, Pamela CooperARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article The American Marathon. By Pamela Cooper. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xviii, 217 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0520-X.) Get access Murray Sperber Murray Sperber Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567510 Published: 01 June 1999

  • Coming on Strong

    Murray SperberREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

    The new type of athletic girl grass-roots growth and sexual sensation in the flapper era games of strife - the battle over women's competitive sport order on the court - the campaign to suppress women's basketball Cinderellas of sport - black women in track and field no freaks, no Amazons, no boyish bobs - the all-American girls baseball league beauty and the butch - the mannish athlete and the lesbian threat play it, don't say it - lesbian ident…

  • Reading Football

    Robin Lester, Michael Oriard et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…

  • Press Games

    William J Baker, Michael Oriard et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • College Sports, Inc

    L Jay Lemons, Murray SperberARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1992Cited by: 5

  • British documentary

    Murray SperberARTICLEQuarterly Review of Film Studies1978

    Elizabeth Sussex. The Rise and Fall of British Documentary: The Story of the Film Movement Founded by John Grierson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. 219 pages. $11.95