The Dandy Dons
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-1877-2 (ISBN)
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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 techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.
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.
Preface: The Changing Game 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
1. Russell's Coming of Age 000
2. A Road Trip to Discovery 000
3. On Catholic Schools and Race 000
4. Another Surprise Recruit 000
5. A School He'd Never Heard Of 000
6. Roommates and Friends Forever 000
7. Time to Produce 000
8. A Disappointing Season 000
9. An Unlikely Coach 000
10. A Surprising Move 000
11. The Trail to the Title 000
12. Russell Brings about Rule Changes 000
13. The Machine Rolls On 000
14. Into the Deep South 000
15. Holiday Travel and the Stall 000
16. Two in a Row 000
17. A New Sport for Russell 000
18. The Aftermath 000
19. Epilogue 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Zusatzinfo | 14 photographs |
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Verlagsort | Nebraska |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 340 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Basketball |
ISBN-10 | 0-8032-1877-X / 080321877X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-1877-2 / 9780803218772 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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