SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 157

	WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas joins
The University of Texas at El Paso in honoring the 1966 Texas 
Western College Miners basketball team and coach Don Haskins on 
the 40th anniversary of the team's National Collegiate Athletic 
Association national championship; and
	WHEREAS, By 1966, the civil rights movement in America had 
passed several milestones; Brown v. Board of Education had been 
decided and the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act had 
become law, but racial discrimination still existed in many areas 
of national life, including college athletics; and
	WHEREAS, Texas Western College, soon to become 
The University of Texas at El Paso, blazed a trail that many other 
teams would soon follow when it became the first basketball team 
to start five African American players in a national championship 
game; and
	WHEREAS, Led by coach Don Haskins, the Miners defeated an 
all-white University of Kentucky team by a score of 72-65, 
shattering once and for all the myth that a multiracial team had 
no place in collegiate sports; the story of that groundbreaking 
season has been made into the feature film Glory Road; and
	WHEREAS, The members of this illustrious team were:  
Jerry Armstrong, Orsten Artis, Louis Baudoin, Willie Cager, 
Harry Flournoy, Bobby Joe Hill, David Lattin, Dick Myers,
David Palacio, Togo Railey, Nevil Shed, and Willie Worsley; and
	WHEREAS, The University of Texas at El Paso and the 1966 
Texas Western College basketball team are rightly proud of their 
role in promoting desegregation in college sports, and they are 
truly deserving of legislative recognition for that enduring 
legacy; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
79th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, hereby extend 
congratulations to the 1966 Texas Western College Miners 
basketball team and The University of Texas at El Paso on the 40th 
anniversary of the team's historic national championship; and, 
be it further
	RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for 
the university as a memento of this special occasion.
                                                                       Shapleigh




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    President of the Senate
 
    I hereby certify that the 
above Resolution was adopted by 
the Senate on May 15, 2006.



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    Secretary of the Senate



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     Member, Texas Senate