Hoop crazy : the lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton /
Clair Bee (1896-1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. In the trial that sent his star player, Sherman White, to prison, the judge excoriated Bee for creati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville [Ark.] :
University of Arkansas Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The extremes of Clair Bee : the bad and the good
- The early years : 1896-1931. Grafton and Valley Falls : 1896-1920
- Dick Dalton goes to college : 1920-26
- Professor Bee and Coach Bee at Rider : 1926-1931
- Bee at Long Island University : 1931-52. Making the Blackbirds proud
- Defying Hitler ; losing Luisetti
- The innovator and the NIT Championships
- Jim Crow and the spit bucket
- Thanksgiving 1939 : ringers and ambition
- World War II, postwar boom, and the creation of Chip
- Chip Hilton and race relations
- Sixty-four Manhattans and a few wives
- The fix and the fixers
- Sherman White and Coach Bee
- Journalist Bee confronts the scandal
- Bee the psalm singer
- Chip and the scandal
- Life after Long Island University : 1952-83. The Bullets and beyond
- Bobby Knight, another championship, and blindness
- Epilogue.