students to participate on the North Texas football team. In the larger picture, Haynes and King were the first to break the color barrier for intercollegiate sports in Texas—seven years before anyone was authorized to break it at a Southwest Conference school. Haynes quickly became an offensive and defensive star on the team. Despite his athletic leadership and fan popularity, Haynes experienced painful encounters with Jim Crow—including not being allowed to live on campus. Perhaps the worst was when Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Chattanooga discontinued scheduling North Texas after 1956, citing state laws. Haynes went on to play with the Dallas Texans (1960–1963), earning the American Football League MVP in 1961, and continued playing when the team became the Kansas City Chiefs (1963–1964). Then he played for the Denver Broncos (1965–1966), the Miami Dolphins (1967), and the New York Jets. Haynes is in the Halls of Fame of North Texas (1986), Kansas City Chiefs (1991), and Texas Sports (2007). Haynes, who now lives in Denton, is one of a few athletes who was able to play high school, college, and professional football in North Texas. Mean Joe Greene, in 1968, was selected as a College Football Consensus All American, the only alumnus in the -year history of football at North Texas to win the honor. He went on to the Pittsburgh Steelers where he anchored the Steel Curtain defense that led Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl titles. In 1976, North Texas inducted Greene as a Distinguished Alumnus, an honor bestowed only to twenty-nine others during the then ten-year history of the award. On August 1, 1983, Governor Mark White appointed Greene to the Board of Regents of North Texas, making him the first African American to serve as a regent of any Texas state university. In 1987, Greene was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the only alumnus ever to become a member. In 1988, he was named to the North Texas Hall of Fame. Championship history National titles NCAA Division I men's golf: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 Conference titles Football Lone Star Conference: 1932, 1935*, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1947 Gulf Coast Conference: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955 Sun Belt Conference: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Men's basketball Southland tournament: 1988 Sun Belt tournament: 2007, 2010 Sun Belt West Division: 2009–10 College Basketball Invitational: 2018 C-USA: 2020 C-USA West Division: 2022 C-USA tournament: 2021 Women's soccer Sun