Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention on one particular story which has a mass appeal and then deluge the public with columns of news about it. They concentrate on one thing at a time, disregarding the meanwhile all other mass interest stories that may come along. For over five weeks the Culbertson-Lenz bridge rodeo held its position as the most consistent daily front page story. Then it stopped. But before city editors had the time to cease yawning, they had thrust at them what promises to be one of the most stupendous news story of the year...
Although Big Ton officials have thus far remained silent on the manner in which charity football games will be played this fall, Eastern colleges, urged on by the national unemployment committee of President Hoover, have agreed to stage a football rodeo to take place in New Haven and New York. Each game will be for 20 minutes and an active day of football games is planned for the spectator...
...Eastern system of 20-minute games would make it impossible to determine accurately the standing of each team. Dissatisfaction would be bound to arise on either side. Financially, too, it seems impracticable to hold the abbreviated style rodeo games. Games in five centers of the Big Ten would certainly attract larger attendance than the rodeo in one or two centers...
With the old Yippee! of the cowpunching West, Cheyenne last week held its 35th annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise...
...show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both the calf (20 8/10 sec.) and steer (24 1/10 sec.) roping contests. Rival of Cheyenne's Frontier Days is the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup, to be held this year Aug. 27-29. Queen of that rodeo will be brown-haired, blue-eyed Betty Bond, 18, junior at the University of Oregon...