The Dandy Dons: Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and One of College Basketball's Greatest and Most Innovative Teams

by James W. Johnson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080321877X
• ISBN13: 9780803218772
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"