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*The 1966 men's basketball team (when the school was known as Texas Western) became the first team of all-black players to win the NCAA championship, defeating an all-white Kentucky powerhouse team in the process (as of 2019 it remains the only Texas university to win the men's basketball title; the accomplishment was later featured in the movie ''Glory Road'')
*The 1966 men's basketball team (when the school was known as Texas Western) became the first team of all-black players to win the NCAA championship, defeating an all-white Kentucky powerhouse team in the process (as of 2019 it remains the only Texas university to win the men's basketball title; the accomplishment was later featured in the movie ''Glory Road'')
*Bob Beamon, who later set the world record in the long jump at the 1968 Olympics (by nearly two feet over the prior record, due in large part to Mexico City's thin air at high altitude), was on the track team
*Bob Beamon, who later set the world record in the long jump at the 1968 Olympics (by nearly two feet over the prior record, due in large part to Mexico City's thin air at high altitude), was on the track team
==See also==
*[[Beto O'Rourke]]
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