I was a freshman at Texas Western College (now UTEP) in 1965-66 back when the basketball team won the NCAA championship, the football team went to a bowl game, and the track team was one of the best in the nation.  I don't recall ever seeing any of the athletes anywhere on campus.

The following summer, I was in New Orleans walking on Bourbon Street, when three young black guys walking toward me stopped, looked at my TWC shirt, looked at me, and one of them said, "YOU went to Texas Western??? Man, I thought that was a colored school!"  The athletes were almost the only black people in the school.