Solberg, W: Creating the Big Ten Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization

"Anyone interested in college football, the history of intercollegiate athletics, and the attempts at governance, will find this book an important addition to their library and their knowledge."--Sport Literature "Winton U. Solberg's Creating the Big Ten is a superb work on a significant topic in American social and institutional history." --The Journal of American History "A great resource for scholars and fans wanting an in-depth look at how the conference came together, and almost came apart, and the many different paths it might have taken along the way." --Journal of Sport History "Solberg has written a very useful and timely history. The commercialism of modern big-time intercollegiate sports was clearly a long time coming, as the author of Creating the Big Ten ruefully makes clear." --Middle West Review