The Dandy Dons: Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and one of college basketball's greatest and most innovative teams
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1. Verfasser: Johnson, James W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Russell's coming of age -- A road trip to discovery -- On Catholic schools and race -- Another surprise recruit -- A school he'd never heard of -- Roommates and friends forever -- Time to produce -- A disappointing season -- An unlikely coach -- A surprising move -- The trail to the title -- Russell brings about rule changes -- The machine rolls on -- Into the deep South -- Holiday travel and the stall -- Two in a row -- A new sport for Russell -- The aftermath -- Epilogue
In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 243 pages)
ISBN:9780803224445
0803224443
1282130854
9781282130852

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