Secret Game A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

Name: Secret Game A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
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ISBN: 9780316244626

ISBN-10: 0316244627

ISBN-13: 9780316244626

Edition: 2016

Authors: Scott Ellsworth

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The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads.Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 3/1/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English