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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.

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  • Title The Dandy Dons: Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and One of College Basketball's Greatest and Most Innovative Teams
  • Author James W. Johnson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison, Lincoln
  • Date 2009-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780803218772 / 080321877X
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Russell, Bill, College sports - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008048163
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.043

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  • Booklist, 05/15/2009, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2009, Page 0
  • Multicultural Review, 10/01/2009, Page 64

About the author

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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