We are living in a time when college athletics are honeycombed with falsehood, and when the professions of amateurism are usually hypocrisy. No college team ever meets another with actual faith in the other’s eligibility. —President William Funce of Brown University, in a speech before the National Education Association, 1904.
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David Meggyesy is the western director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). He is author of Out of Their league,his football autobiography, and numerous articles regarding sport and society. He played seven years in the NFL with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Meggyesy, D. Athletes in big-time college sport. Soc 37, 24–28 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686170
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