| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4 | The History Cooperative

Ronald A. Smith. Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sports. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 304. $45.00.
No one knows more than Ronald A. Smith about the history of intercollegiate sports in the United States. His Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics (1988) remains the definitive account of the birth and development of college sports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now he offers an extraordinarily detailed historical examination of the relationship among top-flight college sports (principally football), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and television.	1
Smith's research was prodigious. He examined archives in more than forty colleges and universities; the important Walter Byers Papers at the NCAA itself; and the papers of the long defunct Du Mont television network. The bibliographic essay is comprehensive, and his Appendix consists of a remarkable thirty-page timeline of major (and minor) moments in the history of electronic communications and college sports.	. . .

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