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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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, James W., 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Russell, Bill, > 1934-2022.
Jones, K. C., > 1932-
Woolpert, Phil.
Russell, Bill, > 1934-
Russell, Bill, > 1934-2022
University of San Francisco > Basketball.
University of San Francisco.
Basketball teams > United States > History.
College sports > United States > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Basketball.
Basketball teams.
College sports.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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