Word: pickett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exasperating day back in 1903, so the story goes, an Oklahoma cowpoke named Bill Pickett was having an infernally tough time persuading an ornery steer to head into a corral He whooped at it and pleaded with it, prodded and battered it, until in furious frustration he leaped from his horse, bit the steer's lip like a bulldog, twisted its neck and brought it to the ground. Pickett's romantic technique was never very handy around the ranch, but it was sort of satisfying, and Pickett kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country. Word...
Long Neck. No one bites steer lips any more, but last week, at the annual rodeo at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, one cowboy was far and away the foremost master of the rest of Pickett's technique. James ("Big Jim") Bynum, 38, three times (1954, 1958, 1961) world's champion bulldogger, has dominated the sport with his 250-lb., 6-ft. 4-in. frame for more than a decade. Up until the Pueblo go, Bynum had piled up $12,409 in steer-wrestling competition in 1963. With almost three months left before the National Finals Rodeo...
What was supposed to be a close wrestling match in New Haven Saturday afternoon turned into a bad beating for the varsity when the inspired Bulldog grapplers took unexpected points in the middle weight classes. Bob Pickett's varsity won only two of nine matches in falling to the Elis 20-10. In spite of the loss, the Crimson finished the season with a 4-2 mark--good enough for second place in the Ivy League...
Kolodney, Pickett's only undefeated grappler, will miss the Bulldog match with a bad knee injury. One of the team's sophomore standouts, John Mamana, is also on the inactive list at the 177 pound level...
Juggling his wrestlers to compensate for injuries, Pickett will face Yale with a line-up of seven sophomores and two juniors. He rates the match a "real toss-up," that could go either way, depending on which team is "up" on Saturday...