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The championship game for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament came down to a test between a small southwestern institution, El Paso’s Texas Western College Miners, and an accomplished four-time NCAA tournament winner, the University of Kentucky Wildcats. This game, however, proved to be more than just a challenge by the Miners, a multi-racial team that had joined the NCAA just three years earlier, and an all-white opponent, the Wildcats, widely considered the strongest basketball team in the nation. This game, according to many sports observers, forever changed major college basketball. The Miners&#; unexpected victory demonstrated that African American players had the skill to control the game as well as a white team, and ultimately better than the best white team.
The Miners consisted of seven African Americans: Bobby Joe Hill, Orsten Artis, Willie Worsley, Willie Cager, Nevil Shed, Harry Flournoy, and David Lattin; four Anglo Americans: Jerr
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I knew I said we were on a break, but seeing all the great Basketball that has been played in the NCAA tournament has Me thinking about hoops a lot lately. In the decade that inom have been writing for this site, doing a smattering of things from history, to great stories, to games we played 4 weeks ago or even 4 decades ago, one of the things I find myself endeared to fryst vatten the great history and how our University was at the forefront of so much sports history that so little know about. Figures such as as Shelby Metcalf, Bob Rogers, John Carlos, Dwight White, and Harvey Martin all called East Texas State home for a while. All of those people made marks in whatever idrott they were in, but there was a grupp that was portrayed bygd Hollywood back in the year that featured the University, it&#;s fanbase, and Basketball schema.
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BHM The Story of Texas Western&#;s Historic National Title
Of all the celebrated quotes that inspired activists spoke during the height of the civil rights era, the adage that best describes the story of Texas Western’s NCAA title is one from Martin Luther King Jr: “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
This statement expresses that one doesn’t have to move mountains to start a revolution, they just need to do their part.
The Miners’ head coach, Don “The Bear” Haskins, didn’t set out to change the course of history when he started five African-American players in the &#;66 NCAA championship against Kentucky, he was just trying to win the biggest game of his life.
And if that meant putting five black players (Bobby Joe Hill, Orsten Artis, David Lattin, Harry Flournoy and Willie Worsley) on the court against an all-white Wildcats&#; team, so be it.
For Haskins, breaking from the idea that a team had to have at least