US Bank/NM State Athletics Hall of Fame
Guard on NM State football team from 1938-39...Head basketball coach and sport administrator at NM State from 1949-53...First coach to lead NM State men's basketball program to the NCAA Tournament (1952)...Head basketball coach at UTEP from 1953-59...Won conference championships in 1957 and 1959...Became director of athletics at UTEP in 1961...Hired legendary head coach Don Haskins who won the men's basketball NCAA National Championship in 1966...Pioneer in promoting black student-athletes at UTEP and later at Wyoming as its director of athletics from 1970-80.
