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By DANA McNABB
Take a handful of cowboys and
cowgirls, their diligently trained
horses, an arena, and a couple of offi
cials to run the show and you have
got yourself one of the most popular
and roughest sports America has
ever claimed.
It’s the sport of rodeo. Rodeo has
come a long way from its beginnings
in the days of cattle drives. Cowboys
would then seek entertainment dur
ing the long cattlehauls in-between
cities and settled for bets of which
cowboy could ride a certain bronc
the longest or which hand could bet
ter an already established time re
cord in roping a calf.
The adventure, the boastfulness,
and the freedom linked with rodeo
still exist, but, like the days the sport
began in, rodeo has refined, and or
ganized to its present day form.
Rodeo is organized in three na
tional associations of rodeo, the Pro
fessional Rodeo Cowboys Associa
tion, the International Rodeo As
sociation, and the National Intercol
legiate Rodeo Association, with the
latter (NIRA) being a college ranking
association.
The NIRA is divided into ten reg
ions representing the United States,
with Texas A&M in the Southern
Region. Each school represented in
the NIRA has a rodeo team consist
ing of six men and three women; one
for each event in rodeo.
The nine events in NIRA rodeo
include the six men’s events of steer
wrestling (bulldogging), team rop
ing, calf roping, bullriding, saddle
bronc riding, and bareback bronc
riding, and the three women’s
events of barrel racing, goat tying,
and break-away roping.
These collegiate teams compete in
regional rodeos throughout the sea
son and accumulate points from each
rodeo, for both individual status in
all events and for the women’s teams
and men’s teams from each school.
At the end of the season, the top two
men’s teams, the top two women’s
teams, the top two individual win
ners in each event, and the all-
around winners from each region
participate in the NIRA finals in
Bozeman, Montana. This competi
tion is the “cream of the crop” in
college rodeo.
Eddie Dominguez '66
Joe Arciniega ’74
Greg Price
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Texas A&M, ranking number two
in the Southern Region, 1975-76,
and Sam Houston, ranking number
one in the Southern Region, 1975-
76, will travel to Bozeman this sum
mer. This is the fourth consecutive
year that A&M has competed in the
national finals, winning fourth place
in the nation in 1973 and tenth place
in 1975.
Mike Cox, an A&M cowboy, won
the region this year in bullriding and
will be on the finals team from A&M.
Last season, Greg Court and
Terry Chapman won the Southern
Region championship in steer
wrestling and saddle bronc riding,
respectively. They each won for this
a $500 scholarship from the Ameri
can Tobacco Co., of which $400 total
was given to the rodeo club’s scho
larship fund. The president of the
rodeo club, Jerry Hayes, placed
third in the region in steer wrestling
in 1973 and fourth in 1976.
A total of $100,000 in scholarships
will be up for grabs this year at the
national finals, donated by the
American Tobacco Company.
The A&M rodeo team that will
compete in Bozeman is comprised of
Daryl Atkins, Johnny Powell, Cody
Dutton, Mike Cox, Jerry Hayes, Kay
McMullan, Linda Fletcher, and
Marilyn Chesser. One additional
cowboy will be selected to go to the
finals.
These cowboys and cowgirls are
the top A&M entries of the nine
events of NIRA rodeo. These events
difi’er little from rodeo in the other
associations, but a few rules are
changed to better fit the college situ
ation.
Calf roping requires a cowboy, a
rope, and a calf. The cowboy sets his
horse up in a box or a fenced-in area
with the side facing the arena open.
A calf is placed in the pen alongside
the roper’s box. Upon signal from
the judge, the calf is let out of the
chute by another cowboy. The cow
boy mounted on his horse, now pro
ceeds to rope the calf. If the barrier is
broken the cowboy gets no time. The
barrier is a device which gives the
calf a pre-determi ned head start. It is
of a light rope held tight by a coil
spring and is latched across in front
of the roper and his horse. When the
calf crosses the line marking the
headstart, it releases the barrier. If
the roper rides through the barrier
before it is released, he is assessed a
ten-second penalty.
The roper may catch the calf any
way it works out — over the head,
around the middle, even by a leg.
But he must let go of the loop he
throws when he throws it and the
rope must hold on the calf until the
cowboy can get his hands on him.
The cowboy must cross and tie any
three legs, with any knot he likes,
then snap his hands away from the
tie string to signal for time. The
mounted field judge’s flag drops
down then to signal time to stop. The
calf must remain tied for about six
seconds after the cowboy has re
mounted his horse. If the calf strug
gles free during that time, that cow
boy goes home with no time. This is a
game of quickness with a good start
out of the box and a fast horse being
important.
Like calf roping, team roping re
quires skill and yet good team work
because two ropers have the chore in
this sport of roping a steer around
the horns and heels. One cowboy is
called the header (and, as you might
guess, he ropes the head as his spe
cialty) and the other is the heeler.
The header must first rope the stee
r’s head before the heeler can get his
shot at the heels. If the rope is too far
up on the legs of the calf or back of
the calf, or if the heeler ropes only
one leg, then the cowboys are
awarded no time. If the header
hangs only one horn or his rope goes
back past the calf s front legs then the
team has no time.
Bareback bronc riding consists of
only a cowboy, a bronc, and the
cowboys bareback “rigging” (a
smooth surcingle or band of leather
with a handhold in the center). The
cowboy has no reins, no stirrups —
just the handle.
The rigging is cinched to the horse
and the contestant is allowed to rub
the handhold with resin to improve
his grip. On the bronc’s first jump
out of the chute, the cowboy must
“mark him out,” that is to spur the
horse over the points of the shoul
ders until the animal’s front hooves
hit the ground. If he fails to do this,
he is disqualified. The rider is also
disqualified if he bucks off bef ore the
signal sound, or if he touches the
bronc with his free hand.
Both the horse and the rider are
judged — the horse on how hard he
bucks, and the rider on how well he
keeps in spurring control. In this
event, the cowboy gets credit only
for spurring over the points of the
shoulders. This is done by the jerk
ing motion with the knees, leaning
back off the handhold.
As in bareback bronc riding, in
saddle bronc riding the cowboy and
horse are judged separately, and the
scores of the two are added together
to get the score for the ride.
The cowboy earns his marking in
saddle bronc riding for his command
of the action and how well he spurs.
In time with the leaps of the horse,
he spurs forward against the horse’s
shoulders, then back to his saddle
(looking as if he were spurring the
back of the saddle). If he fails to keep
his spurs over the point of the
bronc’s shoulders through the first
jump out of the chute, he is disqual
ified. He is also disqualified if he
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changes hands on the rein, loses a
stirrup, or touches the horse, the
rein, or the saddle with his free
hand.
Because bull riding requires a
matching of one cowboy against a ton
of heaving dynamite, the bullriders
have the simplest set of rules to fol
low. All the cowboy can have to help
him hang on to the bull is a loose
rope without knots or hitches, held
around the bull simply by the pres
sure of the rider’s grip. The rider is
not required to spur the animal at all,
but if he is able to spur it will earn
him extra points on his ride. Thus
the ride must be made with one
hand; the other held free. The ride is
a qualified one as long as the riding
hand is on any part of the bull rope —
and the cowboy hasn’t hit the ground
— when the whistle blows to stop
the time.
Bulldogging or steer wrestling is
done with a cowboy, his horse, a
steer, and a hazer or another
mounted cowboy who guides the
steer against the side of the particip
ant. The “dogger” leans to the side of
his horse on which the steer is and
grabs the horns of the steer while
still mounted and at a fast pace. He
slides off his horse, holding on to the
steer, and stops the steer. The cow
boy then twists the steer down with
his own strength. The steer is consi
dered down only when it is lying flat
on its side on the ground with all four
feet and head straight.
The women s barrel racing is a
sport of timeliness and intricacy as
the cowgirl races her horse around a
cloverleaf pattern with three barrels
outlining the pattern. The cowgirl
must follow the set pattern and she is
disqualified if she breaks the pat
tern. She is also disqualified if she
knocks over one of the barrels. After
completing the pattern the cowgirl
“brings her horse home” by racing
him to the end of the arena where
she began her pattern.
In the sport of goat tying, a goat is
Red around the neck with a rope and
the rope is tied to a stake in the
ground that is a minimum of50 yards
away from the starting point. The
cowgirl rides her horse to a point
near the goat, dismounts her horse,
throws the goat to the ground by
hand, and ties any three feetofii I
goat. A leather string or a pi® I
string (same as used to tie theg| Ip
feet iu caff roping) may be usedlo: I ^
the goat. The cowgirl rausttl
stand back three feet fromtliej Ices ^
before the judge will start thei lot" D
second time limit in whichthej® Lj a
legs must remain crossed and 1* |h as 1
Should the contestant's hora« feren ci
tact the goat or rope, the cowgirl) [3.1, £
he fined ten seconds; if the 5, Lsq 1
should break away because o[j I a 15
fault of the horse, she will also! L run
disqualified. I'Horr
Break-away roping uses thesj L Tex;
format as calf roping, hut then jtSWC
girl’s rope is not knotted to the si Ition.
die horn. The rope is tied to I L A;
saddle horn with a string or riH L by
and once the rope is aroundthets] Lar.
head, the pull of the calf instaj 132 vn
breaks the string and the rope|, f\Ve’ve
loose from the saddle horn. This
nals the judge to stop the time
that cowgirl.
These nine events aren’t
rodeo has to offer. Of course
are the ever-famous rodeo clo
who serve a multi-purpose of
tabling but more importantly
as a life saver to a potentially
dangered bullrider who 11
help. There are also manyofilc
judges, announcers, seeretai
chute helpers (whose job is to
the steers and calves), andtl*
might even be a country a ndw
hand winding out thatgood ole
guitar and fiddle music. 0h,btiti|
anyone that’s ever beentoaro
remembers the way eachrodeoii
itionally begins — the grandeiR
displaying all the contestants “
their h orses; the Pledge of
legiance, and the silent arena
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By DANA McNABB
The Texas A&M Rodeo Club
sponsored its annual National Inter
collegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA)
sanctioned rodeo April 29 - May 1 at
8 p.m. nightly in the Aggie Rodeo
arena across from Kyle Field.
Fourteen teams and several indi
vidual entries from schools in the
Southern Region of the NIRA par
ticipated in the rodeo. Besides being
the final rodeo of the year for the
Southern Region, the Aggie rodeo
offered a total of $10,000 in prize
money and sterling silver belt buck
les for the winners in each event and
all-around winners in the men’s and
women’s events.
Schools entered in the contest in
cluded Sam Houston State Univer
sity, the current region leader for
both men’s and women’s teams.
These teams competed in the nine
rodeo events of NIRA; bullriding.
bareback bronc riding, saddle or
riding, steer wrestling, calfrop
team roping, barrel racing, goal
ing, and breakaway roping.
The Aggie men’s team won
team trophy in the men’s divisioi Secon
first place in this rodeo. The! ving,
standings of both the mensteami (the I
the women s team leaves Aid f now
second place in the Southern l isketb
ion. ippla
Johnny Powell and DayrylAt Now
from Texas A&M won theaveraf m to
the team roping event. The averJplar
is figured by an average ofthei
for all the performances during
rodeo of the particular cowboy
The stock producer and sli
company for the rodeo was Sm
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Company of Simonton, Texas.
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sponsor is Dr. Gary Potter oft
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