Title IX: Segregation And Discrimination In College Sports

College and professional football have become a staple in American society. The sport originally gained popularity during the late 1800s in the Northeast by the founding “Father of football,” William Camp. Camp was responsible for changing the rules in football so the sport would involve more contact like rugby. He also included a line of scrimmage in the rule changes, and address when a team would hold and lose possession of the ball throughout the game. Initially, people were skeptical of the changes;however, after Camp made more changes to game, the game began to gain more momentum in larger communities. Football became a sport of diverse communities to bond over. More universities began to make intramural teams for people to play on, which

Segregation and discrimination have run rampant throughout the early and mid 1900s. Through the creation of Title IX, it was meant to give women’s sports the same opportunities and advantages as men’s sports. However, Title IX has also caused controversy among athletic programs because certain money making programs are being defunded to give equal opportunities to other athletes. It becomes difficult for institutions, like Baylor, to find an equal balance between supporting all of its athletes and profiting money. Now, many athletes are trying to fight the NCAA to try to be compensated for their athletic ability and for the millions of dollars that they are bringing in revenue. Many college athletes are struggle to live in a day to day basis outside of sports due to NCAA restrictions that are set upon them. By creating unions for athletes, this can provide athletes with suitable compensation that diminishes some of the inequalities between professional and amateur athletes. In today’s society, racism is not as bad as it was in the beginning of college and professional sports. Although recently, the n-word was spray painted across LeBron James’s home in Los Angeles, which shows that we still have an issue in our society. Racism is not as bad throughout college football specifically compared to how it was at the University of Alabama in the 1960s. More progressive southern coaches like Bear Bryant began to use integration as a way to not only expose his players to people of color, but to also increase the athleticism on his