The Dandy Dons :: Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and one of college basketball's greatest and most innovative teams /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, James W., 1938-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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 resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780803224445
0803224443
1282130854
9781282130852
080321877X
9780803218772

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