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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780803224445 0803224443 1282130854 9781282130852 080321877X 9780803218772 |