Administration of Athletics in Colleges and Universities. INSTITUTION American Association Fer Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Washington, D.C
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 675 HE 002 262 AUTHOR Steitz, Edward S., Ed. TITLE Administration of Athletics in Colleges and Universities. INSTITUTION American Association fer Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Washington, D.C. Div. of Men's Athletics.; National Association of College Directors of Athletics, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 71 NOTE 405p. AVAILABLE FROM NEA Publications-Sales, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ($5.75) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Administration, *Administrative Policy, *Athletics, *Higher Education ABSTRACT The purpose of this book was to make available the best thoughts and methods in the area of athletic administration in colleges and universities. The sections are:(1) The Role of Athletics in Education;(2) Business Procedures;(3) Equipment and Supplies;(4) Planning, Construction, and Maintenance of Facilities; (5) School Law and Legal Liability;(6) Administration of Athletic Events; (7) Health Aspects; (8) Public Relations;(9) The Director and the Staff; (10) Responsibilities to the Student Athlete; (11) Intramurals;(12) Intercollegiate Sports for Women; and (13) Professional Organizations. (AF) 2 PROCESS WITH MICROFICHE AND PUBLISHER'S PRICES. MICROFICHE REPRODUCTION ONLY. ISEBEESIEMS=ZaaWeiBLI ,14,,' Lfir'ATI IN C LL AND UNI ERSITI Edited by Edward S. Steitz National Association of College Directors of Athletics C-N and Division of Men's Athletics, American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPY. RIGHTED MATERIAL BY MICROFICHE ONLY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 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Copyright ©1971 American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation A National Affiliate of the National Education Association 1201 Sixteenth Si., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Order from NEA Publications-Sales 1201 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Discounts: 2-9 copies, 10%; 10 or more, 20% sit S, 7 S PREFACE AS HIGHER education grows qualitatively and quantitatively, there is urgent need to update the best thoughts and aothods in the important area of athletic administration in coll( ,es and uni- versities .It is hoped that students, present administrators, an.. potential administrators will find the publication helpful in achieving this objective. This book is a joint project of the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and the Division of Men's Athlet- ics of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. The chapters were written with an emphasis upon a realistic approach to administration, recognizing the het- erogeneous composition ofcolleges and universities inthe United States. The responsibility for each chapter rests with its contributors. The outline for the content of the text was approved by the eight members of the Joint Steering Committee. Adminis- trative responsibility for coordinating and editing the manuscript in its various stages was delegated to an editorial committee con- sisting of Michael J. Cleary, Robert Weber, and Edward S. Steitz, who served as chairman of the Joint Steering Committee. JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE Edward S. Steitz, chairman Robert J. Weber Lysle K. Butler Samuel E. Barnes Michael J. Cleary Roswell Merrick Walter C. Schwank Tom Scott TABLE OF CONTENTS The Role of Athletics in Education 1 Business Procedures36 Equipment and Supplies63 Planning, Construction, and Maintenance of Facilities90 School Law and Legal Liability115 Administration of Athletic Events150 Health Aspects169 Public Relations217 The Director and the Staff241 Responsibilities to the Student Athlete268 Intramurals314 Intercollegiate Sports for Women 325 Professional Organizations328 Footnotes339 Appendix342 THE ROLE OF ATHLETICS IN EDUCATION 11W.=1111 Walter C. Schwenk, Coordinator Director of Health and Physical Education University of Montana THEADMINISTRATOR of athletics in a college or university is faced with a formidable task. He is ie charge of finances; re- sponsible for maintaining equipment and supplies; a personnel manager for a large and varied staff; involved in public rela- tions in the community and with students; concerned for the health of athletes; coordinator of events for both small and large audiences; and manager of facilities involving both build- ings and outside playing areas. Is the athletics administrator primarily a businessman, an educator, a coach? How does he relate to the rest of the institution? How does he see his job? And, most importantly for this book, exactly what does he need to know and how does he go about learning it? The athletic administrator does all the specific tasks men- tioned aboveand more. These duties are described and dis- cussed in detail in the chapters that follow. But the adminis- trator must also have an understanding of the significance of his role, and of the place of athletics in his institution, his com- munity, and his nation. Some of the concepts involved are sug- gested in this opening chapter. CULTURAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ATHLETICS Athletics or sports, as included in the larger concept of play, have been the object of study by many sociologists over the years. Quotations from a variety of sources will show how the interrelationships of play and culture have been explained and analyzed in different ways. Johan Huizinga states the following conclusion regarding play's effect on culture: Real civilization cannot exist in the absence of a certain play element, for civilization presupposes limitation and mastery of the self, the ability not to confuse its own tendencies with the ultimate and highest 2 / ADMINISTRATION Of' ATHLETICS goal, but to understand that it is enclosed with certain bounds freely accepted. Civilization will, in a sense, always he played according to certain rules, and true civilization will always demand fair play. Fair play is nothing less than good faith expressed in play terms. I Frederick W. Cozens and Florence Stumpf have expressed their recognition of cultural factors in play: Some of the most powerfully influential factors affectng the sports, play activities, and overall recreational life of a people are to be found in the realm of the social institutions within a given culture. together with the combined force of the traditions, ideals, and religious con- cepts exemplified in the culturo....The form and type of play and spurts life which evolve in any group or nation mirror the development in other segments of the culture.' Harry A. Scott, in an extensive volume on sports, has pre- sented his views of the play-culture relationship: It is quite possible that the impulse to play, which is at the root of all competitiwe sports, even preceded civilization to the extent that itis repitesented in the original nature of man. Down through the ages the sports activities of the people were influenced by the cultural develop- ment of the era. In turn, games and sports helped to influence the character of each successive culture. Within the framework of this play-culture relationship, peak and depression periods of sports morality have created a system of dual standards and practices. In some societies, sports have contributed to the highest ideals and most coveted concepts, while in others they have supported and encouraged some of civilization's most undesirable behavior. :t John R. Tunis has expressed his regard for the positive values of sports in these words: Nowhere are the ways and words of democracy better illustrated than in sports. Day after clay we see democracy in action on playing fields, diamonds, courts and rinks. Through membership and leadership in athletic contests, boys and girls learn what democracy means. Their guiding words are"Play the game!" "Fair play!" 4 Cozens and Stumpf acknowledge the concept, almost uni- versally accepted, that sports form one of the genuine bonds of all people: Within a few decades, sports and games have spread over the whale world, leaping barriers of race, religion, and social class. The lan- guage of sport is truly universal, and in the sportsman's code there is neither east nor west, neither white nor black, neither exploiter nor exploited. 5 Gregory Stone,in reviewing American sports practices, re:.,:hed the following conclusion: The game, inherently moral and ennobling of its players, seems to be giving way to the spectacle, inherently immoral and debasing. In this respect current sports developments appear to parallel the course of past civilizations, 6 THE BOLE OE ATHLETICS IN EDUCATION / 3 Jesse F. Williams and A.B. Hughes slate that games are ii common heritage along with