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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Main Author: Johnson, James W., 1938-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
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505 0 # |a 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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