The Jerry Tarkanian Memorabilia (1990-1992, 2013) contains two plaques, newspaper clippings, two magazine articles, and one photograph.
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Additional Description
The Jerry Tarkanian Memorabilia (1990-2013) contains two plaques of laminated newspaper articles showing the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels 1990 NCAA Championship win, newspaper clippings, two magazine articles about Tarkanian, and one photograph.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was born in Euclid, Ohio on August 8, 1930. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons, from 1973 to 1992, he coached the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, leading them four times to the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, winning the national championship in 1990.
The floor of UNLV's home arena at the Thomas & Mack Center was named "Jerry Tarkanian Court" in 2005 and in 2013, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Jerry Tarkanian passed away on February 11, 2015.
Source: "UNLV's Jerry Tarkanian, Rebel with a cause vs. NCAA, has died," accessed July 3, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/02/11/jerry-tarkanian-obituary-unlv-mens-basketball-coach-ncaa/2064683/
Material remains in original order.
Administrative Information
Jerry Tarkanian Memorabilia, 1990-1992, 2013. MS-00767. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Accession number: 2000-25.
In 2018, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Joyce Moore revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards and created an ArchivesSpace finding aid.