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

• Main Author: Johnson, James W., 1938-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Russell, Bill, > 1934-; Jones, K. C., > 1932-; Woolpert, Phil.; University of San Francisco > Basketball.; Basketball teams > History. > United States; College sports > History. > United States; Basketball teams.; SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.; SPORTS & RECREATION > History.; SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.; SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.; GAMES > Sports. > Gambling; TRAVEL > Sports. > Special Interest; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.