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Dean Smith coached UNC men's basketball in Chapel Hill for 35 years, winning 879 games and two NCAA championships. In 1959, as an assistant coach, he joined his pastor Robert Seymour in taking a Black theology student to dinner at The Pines restaurant to integrate it, and he later recruited Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at UNC.
Source: WUNC: How Dean Smith's Push For Civil Rights Transformed Chapel Hill
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72 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Dean Smith. 4 held at OCPL →
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Dean Smith, head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina from 1961 to 1997, wrote this book with Gerald D. Bell in 2004 under the subtitle Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching. It treats basketball coaching and the philosophy of athletic coaching, with Smith himself as a subject.
Papers of the basketball coach Dean Smith (1931-2015), dated 1915 to 2013, approximately 13,500 items in 55.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5576. Topics include his Kansas boyhood and student newspapers there, the North Carolina Tar Heels, newspaper sports columns, his retirement, and the writers John Kilgo and Sally Jenkins.
Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Art Chansky's 2009 history of the Carolina basketball dynasty that three coaches, Frank McGuire and Dean Smith among them, built at the University of North Carolina. Smith wrote the foreword and Rick Brewer the introduction. Chapters cover Final Fours, the Larry Brown bond, recruiting and the program's records.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Second volume of Ron Smith's history of University of North Carolina basketball, covering the Dean Smith years from 1961 to 1969. Published in 2023.
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Ron Smith's large-format illustrated history of University of North Carolina basketball, issued by Creative Trends in 2021 in volumes measuring 32 cm. Volume 1 runs from 1891 to 1961, with a foreword by Larry Brown; volume 2 covers Dean Smith's first years as head coach, 1961 to 1969, with a foreword by Curry Kirkpatrick. Illustrations, portraits and facsimiles, some in color, appear throughout.
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John Feinstein's account of the three coaches who defined Triangle college basketball in the 1980s: Dean Smith (1931-2015) at North Carolina, Mike Krzyzewski at Duke and Jim Valvano (1946-1993) at N.C. State, all working within a few miles of one another. Feinstein follows the recruiting contests, the rivalry among the three programs and the personal competition among the three men, which was not always friendly, and the pressure that came with national attention. Published by Doubleday in 2016, 404 pages with plates.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Art Chansky's checklist of trivia for followers of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball: one hundred things a fan should know or do, drawn from the program's history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams among the names covered. Published by Triumph Books of Chicago in 2015, 287 pages with illustrations.
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Dean Smith's autobiography of forty years in college basketball, most of them as head coach of the Tar Heels at the University of North Carolina, published by Random House in 1999. It runs 350 pages with 48 pages of plates.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Smith, Dean.
North Carolina sportswriter Art Chansky's account of Dean Smith and the basketball program he built at the University of North Carolina, subtitled the inside story of Dean Smith and his college basketball empire. Published by Longstreet in Atlanta in 1999, 302 pages with illustrations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Chapel Hill PL record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Art Chansky's celebration of Tar Heel basketball and Dean Smith, published in 1996 as Smith neared the end of his coaching career at the University of North Carolina. The Tar Heels and the university's basketball history are its subjects. Published by Warner Books in New York, 152 pages with illustrations, some in color, in a large format.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Biography of Dean Smith, the University of North Carolina basketball coach, by Thad Mumau, published by J. F. Blair in Winston-Salem in 1990. A revised edition of the author's 'The Dean Smith Story' from 1980, 287 pages with illustrations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
Thad Mumau's biography of Dean Smith (1931-2015), the University of North Carolina basketball coach, published in 1980 with the subtitle More than a Coach. It concerns basketball coaches, North Carolina biography and Tar Heel basketball. Issued by Strode Publishers of Huntsville, Alabama, 224 pages with illustrations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
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Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
Biography of Dean Smith, the University of North Carolina basketball coach, by Thad Mumau, published by J. F. Blair in Winston-Salem in 1990. A revised edition of the author's 'The Dean Smith Story' from 1980, 287 pages with illustrations.
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