The “Dumb-Jock” stereotype originated in the 1930’s when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so he could play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it “The Football Player.” But during the 1930’s athletes weren’t perceived as uneducated, it wasn’t until the late 1980’s that statistics could back up the theory that athletes are treated differently and get admitted to college before an at-large student.

The first statistic you need to look at is Athletes’ admission into college. In 1976 the smallest percentage of students being admitted were athletes. In 1999 48

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