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The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph / Scott Ellsworth.
Van Pelt Library GV885.72.N8 E45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellsworth, Scott (Historian), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North Carolina College for Negroes--Basketball.
- North Carolina College for Negroes.
- Duke University--Basketball.
- Duke University.
- Basketball--North Carolina--Durham.
- Basketball.
- Discrimination in sports--North Carolina.
- Discrimination in sports.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Durham.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
- Summary:
- Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.
- Contents:
- Part 1
- Chapter 1 Aubrey 9
- Chapter 2 Negroes with LaSalles 22
- Chapter 3 Big Dog 41
- Chapter 4 "Nobody Wanted to Mess with Him" 54
- Chapter 5 Fathers and Sons 70
- Chapter 6 Lawrence 89
- Chapter 7 "That's How You Do It!" 100
- Chapter 8 Berlin, 1936 115
- Chapter 9 Racehorse Basketball 125
- Chapter 10 Hossiers 141
- Part 2
- Chapter 11 City of Stone 153
- Chapter 12 Blue Devil 166
- Chapter 13 Medicine Ball 178
- Chapter 14 "He Can't Sit There" 178
- Chapter 15 Burgess 206
- Chapter 16 A Knock at the Door 222
- Chapter 17 "You Could See It in Their Eyes" 234
- Chapter 18 New York 242
- Chapter 19 The Secret Game 255
- Chapter 20 "Did You Hear About..." 277
- Chapter 21 Look Away 289.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0316244619
- 9780316244619
- OCLC:
- 883650119
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