The Texas-Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. The Miners overwhelmed Oklahoma City 89-74 Monday night, March 7, 1966, in the NCAA Tournament in Wichita, Kans. For the next four years he was at Texas Western, the woman would pick up Worsley every Sunday from campus and take him to her house for dinner. It wasn't a racial issue at the time. Tulsa, which came into this game with a 10-1 record, kept the game close early on. 2 transfer Max Abmas commits to Texas. 1965: TWC takes 67-47 win over Pan American. The team was immortalized in the 2006 film Glory Road. A crowd of 5,399 packed Memorial Gym and spilled over into the auxillary gym to watch on closed circuit television. Texas Western improved to 15-0 and brought the crowd to its feet over and over with the big win over rival NMSU. Iowa, ranked No. And those letters from the whites in the south, you can just imagine what they said. "Isay it with love becauseyou couldn't tell the 12th person from the No. It had been a goal of the National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People for decades. 1965: TWC wins Mississippi Valley Classic. It led to the integration of college sports. Texas Western's Championship Win Was Historic, But Why Did It Take So In fact, the opposite was true. They cruised on to take a 40-26 halftime lead. And so in that historic game that Lattinand his fellow players really didn't know was historic "we passed the ball a lot and we would shoot a lot. Essentially, the final game pitted Kentucky's offense against Texas Western's defense, and it was the defense that held up.". "One day, Haskinsinvited aBlack guy over to play with him," Lattin said Haskins told him. What Texas Western's Black players and white coach did in 1966 The team was eventually inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall Of Fame. It was what I had done all year.. all-white and another whose starters were entirely black. Coach Haskins saved his life. It looks more like David Lattin scored just one point in the first half but finished with 19 points to lead the Miners. His reputation was such that even those black The Miners again used their lockdown defense and rebounded with a fury, outrebounding Nevada 59-25. Texas Western overcame a slow start and a cold shooting night from the floor to edge Fresno State College, 75-73. "It's just one of those things that sticks out to me about that game.". Oswald, realizing changing times and the school's border-state geography Even when Texas Western players started dribbling the ball around at the end ofthe game to let the clock run out. The Miners, who shot just 37.1 percent to 54.5 percent for Arizona State, held on for the win. But the Miners came right back, took the lead and led 43-37 at the half and never trailed again. FILE - In this March 19, 1966, file photo, Kentucky's Thad Jaracz (55) and Texas Western's David Latin (42) reach for a rebound during the first period of the NCAA men's baksetball championship game in College Park, Md. The Miners, now 23-1, will travel Sunday to Wichita, Kan., where they will open the NCAA Tournament against Oklahoma City University on Monday. That just didn't happen in those days of college basketball. Have all theAfrican American players come to your room. Texas Western, ranked 6th in the nation, ripped New Mexico State 104-78 in front of a standing room only crowd of 5,201 in Memorial Gym on Tuesday night, Feb. 1, 1966. Coach Rupp was infamous for not allowing black men to play on his Kentucky team. pic.twitter.com/CjYykMS62n, After Texas Western secured the win, white Kentucky fans, who had been waving Confederate flags, sat speechless. The Team - University of Texas at El Paso players he did recruit -- like Kentuckians Butch Beard and Wes Unseld -- racial matters. Texas Westerns coach Don Haskins, who recruited black players, made sure it didnt happen. Otherwise, Miners players said there was no racial tension. Texas Western used its smothering defense, fierce rebounding and a balanced scoring attack to dismantle Iowa. I want to talk to them. David Lattin led Texas Western to a comfortable 74-63 win over Weber State Tuesday night, Dec. 14, in front of 3,875 fans in Memorial Gym. The winners of the two games advance to Lubbock for the NCAA Regional Tournament Friday and Saturday. "(He said) `You The Miners outrebounded West Texas 49-26. Nevil Shed led Texas Western with 23 points. Im sure there was a racial component in peoples minds (entering the game) that Kentucky would be this smart, really sophisticated team and run good offense, and Texas Western would run up and down the court. Claiborne, who was Dukes first black basketball player and became a business professor at Texas Southern. "Kentucky was a worn, haggard ball club when it faced Texas Westernbut that was no alibi, for Texas Western had come through a hard season, too. It was the second big upset of the day. Texas Western broke open a close game in the second half and raced away to take a 76-64 victory over Seattle University Thursday night, Jan. 6, 1966, in Memorial Gym. Hill led the Miners in scoring with 15 points. Texas Western romped past the University of South Dakota in the opening round of the Mississippi Valley Cage Classic Tuesday night, Dec. 21, in Rockland, Ill. ESPN Classic - Texas Western's 1966 title left lasting legacy The Miners, ranked 9th in the nation, improved to 12-0 on the season with the Thursday night win. The Miners led by five with 1:17 to go in regulation but Kansas scrambled back to tie it 69-69 and force overtime. Bobby Joe Hill led the Miners with 19 points. The Miners shot 50.8 percent from the field and held the Aggies to just 34.1 percent. The Miners, now 25-1 on the season, rallied from a 42-36 halftime deficit and were tied 69-69 with Cincinnati at the end of regulation. UTEP honored the 1966 team earlier this month during a ceremony that includes messages from President Barack Obama, Nike co-founder Phil Knight, film producer Jerry Bruckheimer and ESPN commentator Dick Vitale. Harry Flournoy had 18 rebounds and Nevil Shed had 10. Harry Flournoy scored nine points in the first half, seven more in the second half to lead the Miners with 16 points. "The running, gunning Texas Texas Revolution - Wikipedia Bobby Joe Hill led the Miners offensively with 19 points. Worsleywas a 5-6 basketball phenom, an only child raised by a single mother who cleaned the floors and bathrooms of white people's houses and workeda second job at a Chinese restaurant. Title. Orsten Artis had 12 points and Nevil Shed and Harry Flournoy had 10 points each. But even as the jubilant Miners celebrated a new set of myths was emerging. The victory, according to sportswriters, analysts and prognosticators was a watershed event because it encouraged other predominantly white schools to recruit African-American players, ending years of shameful and evil segregation. The historic feat of Texas Western's win, five Black players and a white coach,and its tie toracial equity didn't immediately reverberatethroughout the country. Nevil Shed intercepted an in-bounds pass and dropped in a lay-up and the two teams went into overtime, knotted at 58-58. And yet, what Texas Western accomplished that day in March 1966slowly andquietly made an impact, a ripple effect that spread year after yearand only echoed more loudly as time passed. "and It should have been done a long time ago as far as the commitments to all the blacks being successful. Harry Flournoy had a huge game with 14 points, 14 rebounds. As a matter of fact, when Haskins was unloading the moving truck into his El Paso home after taking the job, one of the teams players that he inherited,Nolan Richardson, who would go on to become a legendary national championship-winning coach at the University of Arkansas in the 1990s, showed up to welcome and help him get situated. The team won the national championship in 1966, becoming the first team with an all-black starting lineup to do so. Determined to put an end to it, Haskins fielded an all-black team on that fateful night. Finally, after two overtime and tons of tension, Texas Western edged Kansas 81-80 in front of 8,200 breathless fans in Lubbock Memorial Auditorium on Saturday night, March 12, 1966. It wasn't until December of 1970 that a Rupp team first dressed a black The Miners went out that night and beat a very good Tulsa team 63-54 in front of 5,000 fans in Memorial Gym. Texas Western's (UTEP's) winning the basketball national championship helped promote the desegregation of athletics in the Southeastern Conference which had its first black basketball player in 1967.[7]. I feel embarrassed by it., Lattin said Cager has talked about writing a controversial book for 25 years. Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration - The New York Times Until that moment, at the height of the civil-rights era, no major-college team had ever started five blacks in an NCAA championship game. "I had been listening to all this damn crap out of him," said Haskins. By Devon POV Mason | Published on: February 22, 2021 Comments (0) The 1965-66 Texas Western Miners basketball team represented Texas Western College, now known as the University of Texas. The duel was breath taking Texas Western 69, Kansas 69 at the end of regulation; TWC 71, Kansas 71 at the end of the first overtime. Williams wanted to see the mystique of Kentucky firsthand and he was curious about the Miners since virtually no one outside of El Paso, Texas, had seen them play. The team was coached by Hall of Famer Don Haskins. 1966: Miners beat Utah, to play Kentucky in Finals. W. Stewart in the Baltimore Sun that weekend. Kentucky was all-white again. He is talking about a team of aggressive, good players. Annexing Texas (article) | Khan Academy Bobby Joe Hill and Harry Flournoy added 12 points each, and Flournoy led the Miners with 14 rebounds. "'I'm so happy to have beena part of it," Riley said, "even on the losing side.". It didnt matter to me. Two of Worsley's friends, Cager and Shed, were playing there, too. "It was quite clear after March 1966 that Southern basketball teams would Rupp's lingering bitterness helped paint the Miners as urban street thugs,