ABSTRACT
This chapter, specifically, focuses on African American college football player codes of behavior and the white normative construction of sportsmanlike conduct. An elaboration and refinement of social standards regarding the control of "natural" functions and the conduct of social relations generally; a concomitant increase in the social pressure on people to exercise self-control; and, at the level of personality, an increase in the importance of "conscience" as a regulator of behavior. The playing rules are very clear in their prohibition of actions that are unsportsmanlike or demeaning to opponents. Players will express excitement over a great play but must never address remarks or gestures to opponents or spectators, nor may they spike the ball or throw it into the air. Huntley's neighborhood was peaceful, had a racial mix of black and white families, and was in a middle-class neighborhood of what appears a middle-class city, Fremont, Ohio.
