Les Witte was the younger brother of Cowboys head coach Willard "Dutch" Witte who coached Les for his entire career, including the national championship-winning team his senior season when Wyoming finished with a 26–4 record.

In the pre-NCAA tournament days, the Helms Foundation voted to determine the national champions.

Being the only college basketball voting poll of the era, Helms had the authority on issues such as All-America selections and national champions.

The Spalding Guide, an early sports magazine that focused primarily on baseball but dabbled in other sports, once wrote about Witte in a 1932 issue, "Witte was the cleverest player to show in the conference in a long time.

This boy's dribbling, pivoting and feinting, and his lefthand arch shots, could not be stopped.