player_team death_date death_place coach_years birth_place overall_record player_years coach_team sport birth_date article_title name
new mexico state -lrb- football -rrb- 30 november 2011 marble falls , texas 1949 -- 1953 1953 -- 1959 bassett , texas 140 -- 113 -lrb- .553 -rrb- 1938 new mexico state utep basketball 15 october 1915 george mccarty
 george mccarty
george mccarty

george courtney mccarty -lrb- october 15 , 1915 -- november 30 , 2011 -rrb- was an american college basketball coach and athletic director .
mccarty attended and played football at new mexico state university .
his college career was interrupted by world war ii as he was drafted into the u. s. army .
mccarty served until 1946 and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel as a pilot and flight instructor .
mccarty 's college coaching career began at his alma mater , as he led the aggies to a 65 -- 55 record from 1949 to 1953 .
he then moved to utep , where he coached from 1953 to 1959 .
he compiled a record of 75 -- 58 and broke the color barrier at utep , recruiting the program 's first african-american player , charles brown .
following his stint as head coach of the miners , mccarty was named athletic director at utep , a position he held until 1970 .
during this time , he hired future hall of fame coach don haskins - who brought utep their only national basketball championship in 1966 .
in 1970 , mccarty left utep to become athletic director at the university of wyoming , where he served until 1980 .
he retired to albuquerque where he ran the fund-raising efforts of the school 's athletic club .
mccarty died november 30 , 2011 in marble falls , texas .
