Harry Flournoy passed away Saturday morning in an Atlanta, Ga., hospital, saying farewell to this earth at the age of 72 — just a couple of weeks shy of his 73rd birthday. Flournoy was the co ...

NEW YORK — Harry Flournoy Jr., a captain of the first college basketball team to win the national championship with five black starting players, in 1966, died on Saturday in Atlanta. He was 72.

Almost every day, he said, he visits a doctor for something. Life is a struggle. Mention Harry Flournoy, though, and Artis’ memory is clear, strong and wistful. The two were like brothers.

Harry Flournoy, team captain and the leading rebounder on Texas Western College’s historic 1966 national championship team, passed away on Saturday morning in Atlanta. He was 72 years old.

"I think the changes would have came, but maybe a little slower," said Harry Flournoy, a senior captain on that team. "I think what we did open some eyes, but change was coming." Flournoy ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — UTEP’s athletic director says Texas Western’s 1966 national championship team captain, Harry Flournoy, died in Atlanta Saturday morning at the age of 72.

Gary Emerson's Harry Flournoy and Froebel's Orsten Artis didn't attend Texas Western University in 1962 to make history, but they did. Both basketball standouts wanted to play for legendary coach ...

In this April 2, 2007, file photo, Harry Flournoy, left, and David Lattin, members of the 1966 NCAA-champion Texas Western basketball team, hold their jerseys after being named members of the ...

At the start, this had been about finding someone to stand up and say the excuses were nonsense, the rhetoric was empty, to say the NCAA was just making it up as it went along. It was about Ed O ...