essay idea

I would like to expand on the Kimmels idea of baseball as a way of reconstructing American masculinity and a way of teaching values and ethics and apply them to sports in general, particularly football. As an exhibit I would like to use ivy league football which was dominant and extremely popular at the time. I would use "Ivy league football, orgins of an American obsession" by Mark Bernstein for a possible source of evidence. I would also like to talk about why the Ivy league was so proud of athletics and why schools felt it necessary for a complete education.