How did Amherst change so quickly?

The athlete/non-athlete divide is the next frontier as it seems to come up fairly regularly whenever Amherst is mentioned in a CC thread:

Football draws the most fire because of its roster requirements, but there are also a lot of club sports for kids who (apparently) board their own horses, who play squash and rugby, who’ve been golfing since infancy. And every NESCAC college devotes at least a couple of acres of land to field hockey (which IIRC is one of those Title IX exemptions granted to women’s sports because there is no exact analogy to men’s football?) All of these things are baked into Amherst’s demographics as we have come to know it.

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