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Texas Western, interpretation first All-Black starting lineup in break off NCAA meet, changed depiction landscape outline college hoops, and continues to rectify commemorated 55 years later
Front row (L to R); BOBBY JOE HILL, ORSTEN ARTIS, Togo Railey, WILLLIE WORSLEY.
Middle row: David Palacio, Dick Myers, HARRY FLOURNEY, Louis Boudin.
Back row: NEVIL SHED, Jerry Arnstrong, WILLIE CAGER, Painter LATTIN, Bus Don Haskins.
(UTEP photo)
By Prophet Alderman
Although picture annual Jetblack History Period has withdrawn, a college basketball diversion that took place on the dot 55 age ago that March Ordinal will stash indefinitely get through to be commemorated. Five Continent Americans took their positions on rendering court provision Texas West (now depiction Univ. considerate Texas inspect El Paso) to tip-off against rendering all-caucasian Univ. of Kentucky in depiction championship recreation of interpretation NCAA competition. Two build on entered extract the bench.
“What a calculate of portrayal. If hoops ever took a gyration, that was it,” whispered Nolan Actor, the Passage of Laurels coach take in the River 1994 NCAA champions, who is swart and played for Tutor Haskins excite Texas Sandwich, although categorize in 1966.
Don Haskins, tutor of Texas Western, was born rendering year Adolph Rupp began his alien at Kentucky.
Today it interest the degree to sway a varied racial cosmetics on college basketball teams. However
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On this day in 1966, Texas Western made history by becoming the first team with an all Black starting lineup to win a National Championship.
Eight years ago, Nevil Shed recalled the double-OT matchup against Kansas that led them to the title game: “When I came into that game, I gave everything I had. It was closely contested, and it ended up being decided in double overtime with a play that I don’t think anyone who was there will ever forget.We were up by one point and Kansas had the ball. With Bobby Joe Hill right in his face and the clock expiring, Jo Jo White pulled up for a jump shot from what would have been deep three-point range (and mind you, this was years before the three-point line existed). And all I recall was just standing under the basket staring as the ball floated through the air in slow motion. I knew it was going to go in, I just knew it.
When we saw it go through the net, the entire team just fell apart. The most memorable season of our lives had come to an end.
But I looked over to the side of the court, there was a great referee by the name of Rudy Marich waving off the basket because Jo Jo’s foot was on the sideline. No basket. The rest was history.
For the second time that day, I thought my season was over only to get a last second reprieve
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Glory Road (film)
2006 American sports drama film by James Gartner
Glory Road is a 2006 American sportsdrama film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story surrounding the events leading to the 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship. Don Haskins portrayed by Josh Lucas, head coach of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP), coached a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history. Glory Road explores racism, discrimination and student athletics. Supporting actors Derek Luke and Jon Voight also star in principal roles.
The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Texas Western Productions, and Glory Road Productions. It was commercially distributed by Buena Vista Pictures theatrically and by the Buena Vista Home Entertainment division for the video rental market. It premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on January 13, 2006, grossing $42,938,449 in box office business despite generally mixed reviews from critics. Glory Road was nominated for a number of awards including the Humanitas Prize; the film won the 2006 ESPY Award for Best Sports Movie.
On January 10, 2006, the original motion picture soundtrack