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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Cheating the spread
    sub title: gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball
  name:
    name part: Figone, Albert J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "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"--
  note: Albert J. Figone.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Sports betting
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Football
    topic: Betting
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Basketball
    topic: Betting
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: College sports
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: United States
  classification: GV717 .F54 2012eb
  classification: 796.04/3
  identifier: 9780252037283 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780252078750 (paperback)
  identifier: 9780252094453 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012037767
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 121015
    record change date: 20250816223202.9
    record identifier: in00002806910