Deck 1: Introduction to the Management of Intercollegiate Athletics

Question 1

Which of the following does not describe elements of the first intercollegiate athletic contest?

A) Boat races took place between crews from Harvard and Yale.
B) The contest occurred on a river in Vermont in 1903.
C) The contest was sponsored by a local railroad company.
D) For their efforts, the victors took home a handsome pair of black, silver-tipped walnut oars.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Athletic activities were first organized and run by students, but by 1881 Princeton University formed the first faculty committee to gain control of college athletics from students. Reasons for the formation of this committee included each of the following EXCEPT:

A) Concern over the injuries and deaths in football.
B) The desire to create more opportunities for women and minorities.
C) The fear among many educators that, as the continent was settled and as the nineteenth century drew to a close, American society would become soft.
D) The potential for publicity and cultivation of off-campus constituencies.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following has been identified as the first professional intercollegiate athletic coach?

A) Bill Bradley
B) Walter Camp
C) Bill Reid
D) William Wood

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Each of the following events occurred in 1905, leading up to the formation of the NCAA, EXCEPT:

A) Efforts by Walter Camp to promote the forward pass in football.
B) A meeting of school leaders, convened by New York University Chancellor Henry McCracken, to discuss violence in football.
C) President Theodore Roosevelt's summoning of coaches from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to the White House to lobby their programs to reform football.
D) The death of Union College football player Harold Moore.

Question 5

The traditional definition of management includes each of the following EXCEPT:

A) Responsibility for performance.
B) The coordination of human, material, technological, and financial resources needed for an organization to achieve its goals.
C) The designing of the tasks and organizing of the work to be done.
D) The provision of the sense of direction and purpose that can unify diverse people in a productive enterprise.

Question 6

According to Henri Fayol, management must perform which five key functions?

A) Planning, organizing, contending, commanding, and coordinating.
B) Planning, ordering, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
C) Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
D) Preparing, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.

Question 7

Which of the following does NOT include three functions that Henry Mintzberg identified as key managerial roles?

A) Disturbance handler, facilitator, spokesperson
B) Figurehead, leader, disseminator
C) Liaison, resource allocator, monitor
D) Monitor, negotiator, entrepreneur

Question 8

Which of the following organizations challenged the NCAA's efforts to control women's sports in the 1980s?

A) AIAW
B) AAPHER
C) CIAW
D) DGWS

Question 9

The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell was a blow to Title IX enforcement of college athletic departments because it ruled that __________.

A) Athletics was noneducational and therefore Title IX did not apply.
B) A "programmatic approach" should be taken, and only those programs that receive direct federal funding had to comply with Title IX.
C) Private institutions and all of their programs and offices are exempt from Title IX.
D) Because Grove City College was an NCAA Division III institution, it did not offer athletic scholarships and therefore Title IX did not apply to its athletic department.

Question 10

Of the following, who was NOT a major non-White figure in early intercollegiate athletics?

A) Thom Gossom, Jr.
B) Fritz Pollard
C) Paul Robeson
D) Jim Thorpe

Question 11

Intercollegiate athletic departments exist because the operations are far too complex, with far too many related products and services and necessary tasks, to be performed by a single individual working alone.

Question 12

American institutions of higher education have sought to integrate all facets of life into the collegiate experience. Harvard University's founders intentionally chose the European collegiate system where student lived and boarded in the community and not on a single unified campus, rather than the English or Scottish model where students and masters lived, ate, studied, worshipped, and played together.

Question 13

Author Welch Suggs wrote that, as a result of various concerns, women's programs were kept "low key" because female teacher-coaches "wanted to preserve young women's modesty and accommodate their perceived daintiness," and because of "a general suspicion of competition, particularly as it was being practiced in men's sports."

Question 14

When Title IX was first passed in 1972, numerous athletic directors and college presidents believed they did not have to comply with the legislation because it did not apply to athletics.

Question 15

The event that stands out to many as the seminal moment in the struggle for racial equality in intercollegiate athletics occurred in men's basketball between the all-African American team from the University of Kentucky and the all-African American team from Texas Western College.

Question 16

Outline the athletic participation and activities that occurred before the first intercollegiate athletic contest, and describe how students and faculty reacted at the time.

Question 17

Outline the concept of the "play day," and explain how it reinforced the perceptions of the proper role of women's sports held at the time by many educators.

Question 18

Recount the experiences of African-American student-athletes who were involved in integrating intercollegiate athletic programs in the 1960s and 1970s, and explain why their efforts were so challenging.

Question 19

Discuss how the athletic department at your school would demonstrate the characteristics of a learning organization to deal with a significant management challenge relating to diversity.