The development of inter-college athletics in America is traced from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, looking in particular at the influence of Harvard and Yale.
'Ronald Smith ... displays the same fastidious attention to detail research that distinguished his earlier work, The Saga of American Sports, in this timely and readable narrative. The extensive appendix, a product of many hours spent in search of primary sources in several college archives, anchors the discussion in each of the sixteen skilfully crafted, cleverly connected chapters.'
John M. Charles, College of William and Mary in Virginia, Journal of Educational Administration and History, Volume 24, Number 1, January 1992
