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James W. Johnson

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 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.James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons' novel techniqu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8032-1877-2
  • EAN: 9780803218772
  • Produktnummer: 4466549
  • Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 284 S.
  • Masse: H548.7 cm x B355.6 cm x D1.8 cm 340 g
  • Abbildungen: 14 photographs
  • Gewicht: 340

Über den Autor


James W. Johnson is an emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson and the author of several books, including The Wow Boys: A Coach, a Team, and a Turning Point in College Football, available in a Bison Books edition.

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