Background and Context

Sport: A Very Short Introduction, by Mike Cronin. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

Miller, Ryan. “The Role of Athletics in Higher Education.” Major Themes in Economics 5, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 31–47.

Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and politics transformed college sports by Howard P. Chudacoff. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Onward to Victory: The Crises that Shaped College Sports by Murray Sperber. New York: H. Holt, 1998.

Encyclopedia of Title IX and sports by Nicole Mitchell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007

Diversity and Social Justice in College Sports: sport management and the student athlete, ed. by Dana D. Brooks and Ronald C. Althouse. Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology, 2007.

Encyclopedia of college basketball by Mike Douchant. New York: Gale Research, 1995.

College football encyclopedia: the authoritative guide to 124 years of college football by Robert M. Ours. Rocklin, CA: Prima Pub, 1994.

See the first, second, and third H Book of Harvard Athletics at the bottom of the Harvard sports-related publications and websites box. 

See the first, second, and third H Book of Harvard Athletics at the bottom of the Harvard sports-related publications and websites box. 

Batchelder, Samuel Francis. Bits of Harvard History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.

Bentinck-Smith, William, ed. The Harvard Book: Selections from Three Centuries, Revised Edition. Revised edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1982. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Bethell, John T. Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Bethell, John T., Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton. Harvard A to Z. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Bissell, Richard. You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Bunting, Bainbridge. Harvard: an architectural history. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. -- Information on planning and construction of the stadium, with footnotes.

Gershon, Livia. “How Harvard Became Harvard.” JSTOR Daily, April 11, 2016.

Keller, Morton, and Phyllis Keller. Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University. Updated. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Holden, Harley P. “Student Records: The Harvard Experience.” The American Archivist 39, no. 4 (1976): 461–67.

Moran, Susan Drinker. “Thomas Shepard and the Professor: Two Documents from the Early History of Harvard.” Early American Literature 17, no. 1 (1982): 24–42.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. Part I and Part II.

———. The Founding of Harvard College. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

———. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Peabody, Andrew Preston. “HARVARD IN THOREAU’S DAY.” The Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 174 (1986): 1–5.

Peirce, Benjamin, ed. “Peirce’s History of Harvard University.” The North American Review 38, no. 83 (1834): 381–404.

Schlesinger, Andrew. Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Smith, Richard Norton. The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Sollors, Werner, Caldwell Titcomb, and Thomas A. Underwood. Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. New York: University Press, 1993.

Story, Ronald. The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard & the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870. 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. : Irvington, N.Y.: Wesleyan University Press ; distributed by Columbia University Press, 1980. (need to be logged in with Harvard Key)

Urbanus, Jason. “Harvard Reconnects with Its Native American Past.” Archaeology 61, no. 2 (2008): 33–35.

Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

What other things were happening at that time? The following books offer historical overviews of particular eras of American history

American eras series: Development of the industrial United States, 1878-1899

American eras : the reform era and eastern U.S. development, 1815-1850

American decades 11 volumes. Covers, decade by decade, 1900-2009 HOLLIS Record
Use this HathiTrust Version.   Link on HOLLIS record goes only to vol. 4.  HOLLIS Record gives volume contents

Almanacs of American life:

American women in sport, 1887-1987 : a 100-year chronology, by Ruth M. Sparhawk et al. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1989, 149 p.
HOLLIS record with link to full text