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The importance of extra-curricular sport to US schools

The importance of extra-curricular sport to US schools. Boys work hard to be in the sports teams. Pupils compete to be cheerleaders. The reputation of schools and the community rests on sporting successes.

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The importance of extra-curricular sport to US schools

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  1. The importance of extra-curricular sport to US schools • Boys work hard to be in the sports teams. • Pupils compete to be cheerleaders. • The reputation of schools and the community rests on sporting successes. • Parents realise the credit and prestige sport can bring to their children, and the possibility of sports scholarships for higher education and a successful career.

  2. High school sport links the education system with the professional sport industry. The importance of extra-curricular sport to US schools

  3. Sport in further education • Inter-collegiate sport has been established since the mid-1880s. • The first was a rowing race between Harvard, Yale, Brown and Trinity in the 1860s. • Rowing reached its peak about 1870 and by then American football games, baseball games and athletics were being played,. • The UAA was established in 1888. It was different to British governing bodies as it looked after a wide range of sports.

  4. To work with this the ICAA (Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association) was established in 1905. • Later it became known as the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) • In 1971 the UAA was taken over by individual governing bodies. • In the 20th century sport came to be very important in the American college education system. • The ‘Rosebowl’ competition became prominent in the colleges’ calendar. • Also NCAA basketball and American football are focal points for the colleges.

  5. Yale Corporate Sponsors • New Haven RegisterCoca ColaDichello DistributorsNew Haven Savings BankNews Channel 8Omni New Haven HotelIKON Office SolutionsThe Yale BookstoreVerizon WirelessYale Travel Servicesa World Tek TravelMarriott Courtyard at Yale UniversityCampus CustomsConnecticut Radio Network B & B TransportationBuick ChampionshipSBC/SNET Yellow PagesJostensConnecticut Orthopaedic Specialists

  6. Football Tim Murphy, Thomas Stevenson Family Coach for Harvard Football • John Butler, Special Teams Co-ordinator/ Line Support • David Cecchini, Attacking Co-ordinator / Quarterbacks • Ron Crook, Assistant Coach, Attack line • Kevin Doherty, Defensive Co-ordinator /Defensive Backs • Chris Nugai, Director of Football Operations / Running Backs • Eric Westerfield, Recruitment Co-ordinator /Defensive Line • Matt Cersosimo, Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers • Luke Thompson, Assistant Coach, Ouside Line Supporters • Patrick Kingman, Assistant Coach, Defensive Line • Barbara MacNeill, Administrative Assistant • Megan Whitaker, Staff Assistant

  7. http://www.busa.org.uk/

  8. Task • What are the benefits of a system that promotes so much interest in college sports? • Compare this with the attention given to college sports in Britain.

  9. By today after many scandals and complaints about illegal payments, the changing of examination results and other rewards for college athletes, college sports are run according to leagues. • There is restriction on scholarships and the number of players according to status. • The main colleges have more scholarships, but they will lose these if they are caught doing anything illegal. • A paper by the NCAA in 1988 showed that the average expenditure for the main colleges was $4.5 million on American football alone!!!

  10. The draft system • The bridge between college and professional sport is the DRAFT SYSTEM. • In addition to the draft system wages are fixed so that teams cannot buy success. • In the draft system teams in all the main college sports are listed according to the best at the end of each season. • The main players are also listed – this leads to interest from the professional clubs.

  11. The team listed lowest gets the first chance to get the highest player. This means some consistency in the clubs. • Clubs are allowed to exchange players – if a club has had a quarter back in the draft, and their current QB is strong, they have the right to bargain with another club for a different player.

  12. •Player of the year QB — JOE MAUER, 6-4, 210, Cretin-Derham Hall (St. Paul). Quick hits: Completed 178 of 288 passes for 3,022 yards and 41 TDs. Threw seven TD passes in a state playoff game. Two-year totals are 5,528 yards and 73 TDs. Caught for the U.S. junior national baseball team (hit .522) and is considered a potential first-round selection in the upcoming amateur draft. Named Gatorade's national football player of the year. Quotable: "Joe is a money player. When the game is on the line, he wants the ball." — Cretin-Derham coach Rich Kallok. GPA: 3.26. Favorite Class: Business law. Pregame routine: "Our routine was the same; about eight of us would go to Wendy's for hamburgers, order the same thing each time and then head back to my house, where we'd watch television," Mauer says

  13. Wage control • Wage control affects the whole squad, so that one player’s contract can affect the wages of the rest of the team. • However, this does not hinder players, as many of them are sponsored by the media as part of their contract, and these are not controlled. • www.womenssportsfoundation.org

  14. Activity • How does the draft system reflect America’s image of being a ‘land of opportunities’? • Which characteristics of American sport reflect Lombardi’s principle?

  15. The scholarship system • The scholarship system is a means for an increasing number of America’s young people to go to higher education. • Scholarships exist in many fields, but some sports get most of the attention. • In the period of pure Amateurism, scholarships were a method for athletes to dedicate themselves to sport like professionals, but keeping them Amateur.

  16. More black people get opportunities under this system. • The fact that more basketball scholarships are going to black people shows how sport has been adopted by that culture. • The ‘white flight’ theory suggests that white people are moving to other fields because of inferiority in some sports. • Black people have used going to College as a way of getting a better standard of living. • With the coming of professional sport, the scholarship system is a method of developing excellence without any central funding.

  17. College Sports Scholarship USA 1991 All students Athletics Scholarships Football scholarships Blacks Whites Men’s Basketball scholarship

  18. The majority of the best athletes of the USA were developed within the colleges.

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