Universal Textile Mills, Inc., a company owned by Walter Euyang, started out in the MICAA in 1961. Their roots can be traced back to the Businessman Athletic Association (BAA), a minor league that competed with the more established MICAA during the 1950s and early 1960s. Not much is remembered on the team company's BAA team known as U-Tex Spinners. By the 1970s, the team was competing in the MICAA as the U/Tex Weavers and they began contending at the top of the basketball circle. They were bannered by the likes of Lawrence "Larry" Mumar, Danny Basilan and Lucio Lim. Others who donned the Weavers jersey were Francis Arnaiz, Jumbo Salvador, Roehl Nadurata, Clemente Bargas, Orly de los Santos and Domingo Celis.