Word: pickette
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Although ten returning lettermen from last year's strong team have been joined by a horde of promising sophomores from a freshman squad that swept eight of nine matches, coach Bob Pickett is making no extravagant predictions about his season...
...Cousins, Pickett Replaced...
...Hughes and Spock are elected, they will replace Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review and Clarence Pickett, former director of the American Friends Service Committee. Dr. Spock was uncertain how long his term of office would be. "I think the present co-chairmen have been in there almost since SANE began," he said. "I imagine you retire when you can find someone to replace you. If it's like other things, you get out when...
...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...