The Dandy Dons
Subtitle: Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and one of college basketball's greatest and most innovative teams
By: James W. Johnson.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780803218772
Subjects: Russell, Bill, -- 1934-; Jones, K. C., -- 1932-; Woolpert, Phil; University of San Francisco -- Basketball; Basketball teams -- United States -- History; College sports -- United States -- History
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.