03309nam a2200385 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020002900112020003000141020002700171040002100198035002100219043001200240050002300252082001700275100002200292245014700314260005100461300002300512440002200535504005100557520180800608533015202416650003502568650003802603650004002641650005302681655002902734710001702763856012602780999001702906ebr10634379CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||121015s2012    ilua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012037767  z9780252037283 (hardback)  z9780252078750 (paperback)  z9780252094453 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)822018763  an-us---14aGV717b.F54 2012eb04a796.04/32231 aFigone, Albert J.10aCheating the spreadh[electronic resource] :bgamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball /cAlbert J. Figone.  aUrbana :bUniversity of Illinois Press,c2012.  axv, 196 p. :bill. 0aSport and society  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling"--cProvided by publisher.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aSports bettingzUnited States. 0aFootballxBettingzUnited States. 0aBasketballxBettingzUnited States. 0aCollege sportsxEconomic aspectszUnited States. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10634379zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c47792d47792