Don Haskins Autographs
Donald Lee Haskins (March 14, 1930 – September 7, 2008), nicknamed "The Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He was the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1961 to 1999 (the school was known as Texas Western College until 1967). In 1966 his team won the NCAA tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game highlighted the end of racial segregation in college basketball.
In his time at Texas Western/UTEP, he compiled a 719–353 record, suffering only five losing seasons. His Miners won seven Western Athletic Conference championships and four WAC tournament titles, had fourteen NCAA tournament berths and made seven trips to the NIT. Haskins led UTEP to 17 20-plus-win seasons and served as an assistant Olympic team coach in 1972. He was admitted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997 as a basketball coach. His 1966 team was inducted in its entirety by the same Hall of Fame on September 7, 2007. A movie was made about him called Glory Road in 2008.
After college and a stint with the Amateur Athletic Union's Artesia Travelers, Haskins began coaching small-town Texas high schools (Benjamin, Hedley and Dumas) from 1955 to 1961. He took a pay cut for a chance to be a college coach, accepting a job offer at Texas Western College—now known as the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 1961.
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Traded items with a signature of Don Haskins
The most expensive item with a signature of Don Haskins (1966 TEXAS WESTERN Don Haskins/ Players Signed Book GLORY ROAD - 15 Autographs) was sold in October 2025 for $850.00 while the cheapest item (Texas Western CBHOF Don Haskins (d.08) Signed 3x5 Autograph Index Card) found a new owner for $0.99 in October 2019. The month with the most items sold (5) was January 2026 with an average selling price of $33.90 for an autographed item of Don Haskins. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2026 with $499.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was July 2008. In average, an autographed item from Don Haskins is worth $29.94.
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