IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 668 
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Texas Western’s 1966 NCAA Basketball 
Championship and recognizing the groundbreaking impact of the title 
game victory on diversity in sports and civil rights in America. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2006 
Mr. REYES (for himself, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. BONILLA, Mr. COLE of 
Oklahoma, 
Mr. 
CONAWAY, 
Mr. 
CONYERS, 
Mr. 
CUELLAR, 
Mr. 
CULBERSON, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. EVANS, 
Mr. FORD, Mr. GONZALEZ, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. GRAVES, Mr. AL GREEN 
of Texas, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HALL, Mr. 
HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. 
JEFFERSON, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. KILPATRICK 
of Michigan, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. MEEKS 
of New York, Mr. MORAN of Kansas, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. 
RUPPERSBERGER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SMITH of 
Texas, Mr. SNYDER, and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Texas Western’s 1966 
NCAA Basketball Championship and recognizing the 
groundbreaking impact of the title game victory on diver-
sity in sports and civil rights in America. 
Whereas Don Haskins was a high school basketball star at 
Enid High School in Enid, Oklahoma, a college standout 
at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) under his men-
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tor, Coach Hank Iba, and a successful Texas high school 
basketball coach, amassing a 157–41 win-loss record 
coaching Benjamin, Hedley, and Dumas High Schools; 
Whereas in 1961 Don Haskins became the coach of the 
men’s basketball team at Texas Western College, which 
was later renamed the University of Texas at El Paso; 
Whereas early in the 1965–1966 basketball season Don 
Haskins told Texas Western president Joseph Ray, ‘‘The 
way our boys line up now, my six best boys are black. 
If I leave two or three of them out because they’re black, 
they’ll know it. [And] the white boys will know it.’’; 
Whereas the 1966 Texas Western team of Bobby Joe Hill 
(Detroit, Michigan), Orsten Artis (Gary, Indiana), Togo 
Railey (El Paso, Texas), Willie Worsley (New York, New 
York), David Palacio (El Paso, Texas), Dick Myers (Pea-
body, Kansas), Harry Flournoy (Gary, Indiana), Louis 
Baudoin (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Nevil Shed (New 
York, New York), Jerry Armstrong (Eagleville, Mis-
souri), Willie Cager (New York, New York), and David 
‘‘Big Daddy’’ Lattin (Houston, Texas) finished the bas-
ketball season 28–1; 
Whereas on March 19, 1966, Coach Don Haskins’ all-black 
starting line-up, the first such line-up to ever appear in 
a major championship contest, defeated the heavily-fa-
vored University of Kentucky to win the NCAA Basket-
ball Championship, an event defined by many as the 
‘‘Brown v. Board of Education of athletics’’; 
Whereas the Miners’ victory accelerated the pace of racial in-
tegration in college athletics and contributed to the ex-
pansion of the civil rights movement into the realm of 
sports;
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Whereas when recounting his historic impact on diversity in 
college sports, Don Haskins said, ‘‘I just played my best 
guys, like any coach would do.’’; 
Whereas over the course of his career Don Haskins also 
coached the Miners to 33 winning seasons, seven Western 
Athletic Conference championships, four Western Athletic 
Conference tournament titles, and 21 post-season appear-
ances, creating a proud tradition of college basketball 
success and community spirit in El Paso that persists to 
this day and winning entry into the Naismith Memorial 
Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997; and 
Whereas Walt Disney Pictures released on January 13, 2006, 
Glory Road, depicting the historic 1966 Championship 
season and paying tribute to the personal courage and 
conviction exhibited by Coach Haskins: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives cele-
brates the 40th anniversary of Texas Western’s 1966 
NCAA Basketball Championship and recognizes the 
groundbreaking impact of the title game victory on diver-
sity in sports and civil rights in America. 
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