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

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 243 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	University of San Francisco -- Basketball.
	Russell, Bill, 1934-2022
	Jones, K. C., 1932-
	Woolpert, Phil.
	Basketball teams -- United States -- History.
	College sports -- United States -- History.
	Basketball teams.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
	GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Johnson, James W., 1938- Dandy Dons. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803218772 080321877X (DLC) 2008048163 (OCoLC)268789907
ISBN	9780803224445 (electronic bk.)
	0803224443 (electronic bk.)

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