{"content":[{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.161569,"top":0.042962,"width":0.008234999999999992,"height":0.016978}},{"text":"Why Everyone Deserves a Sporting Chance: \n Education, Justice, and School Sports*","bbox":{"left":0.230588,"top":0.073372,"width":0.5382640000000001,"height":0.055908}},{"text":"©Copyright, 2001 \n Janice Moulton, Smith College","bbox":{"left":0.595294,"top":0.159197,"width":0.24390400000000012,"height":0.03718199999999999}},{"text":"Speaking at a college athletic banquet, Donald Kennedy, the former president of","bbox":{"left":0.192157,"top":0.208288,"width":0.6305439999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Stanford University, spoke about when he had been a college athlete thirty years","bbox":{"left":0.161569,"top":0.24344,"width":0.6311060000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"earlier:","bbox":{"left":0.161569,"top":0.277985,"width":0.056353000000000014,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"It occurs to me to wonder: what would the reaction have been if I had \n predicted that soon women would run the Boston Marathon faster than it had ever \n been run by men up to that point? There would have been incredulous laughter \n from two-thirds of the room, accompanied by a little locker-room humor. \n Yet that is just what has taken place. My classmates would be astonished at \n the happening, but they would be even more astonished at the trends. If we look \n at the past 10 years of world's best times in the Marathons for men and women, it \n is clear that the women's mark has been dropping over the decade, at a rate about \n seven times faster than the men's record.","bbox":{"left":0.192941,"top":0.313137,"width":0.641539,"height":0.15960600000000003}},{"text":"While Kennedy was in school, the swimming teams of Harvard and Yale were the","bbox":{"left":0.192157,"top":0.487076,"width":0.644617,"height":0.020211999999999952}},{"text":"best in the country. He used them for comparison:","bbox":{"left":0.161569,"top":0.522228,"width":0.3936590000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"What would have happened if you had put this year's Stanford women into the \n pool? Humiliation is what. Just to give you a sample, seven current Stanford \n women would have beaten my friend Dave Hedberg, Harvard's great sprint \n free-styler, and all the Yalies in the 100. The Stanford women would have swept \n the 200-yard backstroke and breaststroke, and won all the other events contested.","bbox":{"left":0.192941,"top":0.556773,"width":0.6391,"height":0.08990900000000002}},{"text":"In the 400-yard freestyle relay there would have been a 10-second wait \n between Stanford's touch and the first man to arrive at the finish. Do you know \n how long 10 seconds is? Can you imagine that crowd . . . seeing a team of girls \n line up against the two best freestyle relay groups in the East, expecting the \n unexpected, and then having to wait this long-for the men to get home? (1)","bbox":{"left":0.193726,"top":0.661622,"width":0.621937,"height":0.08990900000000002}},{"text":"_____________________________________________________________________ \n *An earlier version of this paper was given as a talk and published in Rethinking \n College Athletics (Judith Andre and David N. James, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Temple \n University Press, 1991, pp. 210-220.) The revisions were prompted by comments of \n Bob Cohen and George Robinson, for which I thank you both.","bbox":{"left":0.161569,"top":0.801016,"width":0.677627,"height":0.0899080000000001}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}