GLORY ROAD
HISTORY THROUGH FILM
Mr. Clark
Don Haskins
• Donald Lee Haskins
• nicknamed "The Bear"
• March 14, 1930 –
September 7, 2008
• played for 3 years
under legendary
coach Henry Iba at
Oklahoma A&M
(now Oklahoma
State University)
Henry Iba
• After college, Haskins
played briefly with the
A.A.U. Artesia
Travelers
• Haskins then entered
coaching, successfully
leading some smalltown high school
basketball teams to
championships.
• 1961: Haskins takes a pay cut for a chance to
be a college coach, accepting a job offer at
Texas Western College (now the University of
Texas at El Paso)
• In the 1950s, prior to Haskins' arrival, Texas Western
recruited and played African American players, in a
time when it was still common to find all-white
college sports teams, particularly in the South.
• When Haskins arrived
in El Paso, he
inherited 3 black
players from his
coaching predecessor
• one of those players,
El Paso native Nolan
Richardson, would go
on to win a national
title as the head coach
at Arkansas
• The Miners reached the National
Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1963 and
1964 and played in the NIT in 1965.
• He was the head
coach at Texas
Western College
(renamed the
University of
Texas at El Paso
in 1967) from
1961 to 1999
• at Texas Western (and
UTEP), he compiled a
719–353 record,
suffering only 5 losing
seasons
• won 14 Western
Athletic Conference
championships
• 4 WAC tournament
titles
• 14 NCAA tournament berths
• 7 trips to the NIT
• Haskins led UTEP to 17 20-plus win
seasons
• served as an assistant Olympic team
coach in 1972 in Munich, Germany
• He was
enshrined into
the Naismith
Memorial
Basketball Hall
of Fame in 1997
as a basketball
coach.
• The 1966 Texas Western team was
nominated in its entirety to the
Basketball Hall of Fame, and was
inducted to the Hall on September
7, 2007.
• Don Haskins died at his home
on September 7, 2008.
• Among the players he coached at UTEP
over the years were future NBA all-stars
Nate “Tiny” Archibald, Tim Hardaway,
and Antonio Davis.
• The arena he coached in is now known as
"The Don Haskins Center".
• A street is named after him in El Paso,
Texas’ East side.
Texas
Western
University
• Located on the northern bank of the Rio
Grande in El Paso, Texas
• The school was
founded in 1914
as The Texas
State School of
Mines and
Metallurgy
• In the mid-1950s, Texas Western College
became first southern college to integrate
its intercollegiate athletic teams.
• By 1967, the Board of Regents authorized
that the name of the college be changed
from Texas Western College to UTEP
(University Texas- El Paso)
• UTEP is the
largest university
in the nation with
a majority
MexicanAmerican student
population.
“Paydirt Pete”
• Currently there
are some 19,842
students
enrolled at UTEP.
• About 73
percent of
UTEP's student
population is
Hispanic.
UTEP 2006-2010
TONY BARBEE
HEAD COACH
• Barbee is the first
black head coach at
UTEP, a school
credited with helping
break down the color
barrier in college
sports.
1966
N.C.A.A.
Tournament
EAST
1966
NCAA
Duke
WEST
Utah
Championship
Duke
(76-74)
St. Josephs
Providence
Utah
(83-51)
St. Josephs
(65-48)
Pacific
Duke
Davidson
Rhode Island
Utah
(91-81)
TX Western
National
Champions
Davidson
(95-65)
(70-64)
Houston
Houston
(82-76)
Syracuse
(94-78)
Colorado St.
Oregon St.
(63-60)
Syracuse
Oregon St.
TX Western
Kentucky
(72-65)
Kentucky
Kentucky
(86-79)
Dayton
Miami-OH
Kansas
Dayton
(58-51)
S.M.U.
Kentucky
(84-77)
Western KY
Loyola-IL
TX Western
(81-80)
TX Western
Western KY
TX Western
(105-86)
(89-74)
Michigan
(80-79)
Michigan
MIDEAST
Kansas
(76-70)
Oklahoma
City
TX Western
(78-76)
Cincinnati
MIDWEST
MINERS
FG
FT
RB
F
PTS
Bobby Joe Hill
7-17
6-9
3
3
20
David Lattin
5-10
6-6
9
4
16
Orsten Harris
5-13
5-5
8
1
15
Willie Worsley
2-4
4-6
4
0
8
Willie Cager
1-3
6-7
6
3
8
Nevill Shed
1-1
1-1
3
1
3
Harry Flournoy
1-1
0-0
2
0
2
TOTALS
22-49
28-34
35
12
72
• The Texas Western
Miners finished the
1965–66 regular season
with a 23–1 record
• They enter NCAA
Tournament ranked 3rd
in the nation in the final
regular season AP
college basketball poll.
• In the 1st round of the tournament, the
Miners defeated Oklahoma City 89–74.
• In the next round,
they defeated
Cincinnati 78–76
in overtime.
• They went on to
defeat Kansas in
double overtime in
the Midwest
Regional Finals,
81–80
• Texas Western
defeated Utah in
the national
semifinals, 85–78.
• Facing the #1 ranked
University of
Kentucky in the
championship game,
Haskins made history
by starting FIVE
African American
players for the first
time ever in a
championship game
• University of
Kentucky had an
all-white basketball
team coached by
Adolph Rupp.
• The Miners took the lead midway in the
1st half and never relinquished it —
though Kentucky closed to within a point
early in the 2nd half.
• The Miners
finished with 72
points to
Kentucky’s 65,
winning the
tournament and
finishing the year
with a 28–1 record.
"I really didn't think about
starting five black guys. I
just wanted to put my five
best guys on the court. I
just wanted to win that
game.“
- Don Haskins
“I've said this many times over the last
40 years, but for a long time I thought
winning the national championship
was the worst thing ever to happen to
me. I wished for a long time that we
had never won that game with
Kentucky because life would have been
a heck of a lot easier for me, my school
and my players.”
- Don Haskins
2011-2012
Kentucky Wildcats
2011-2012 UTEP Miners
15 wins – 17 losses
8th in Conference USA