Word: steers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steer clear of conversing about such players as Lyman Bullard, who although only a sophomore, has shown tremendous skill as an inside forward. Stay away from veterans Steve Hines, Leroy Thompson, or Bob Magee. And don't bring up Eric Zager or Art Faden. If you want to discuss Dave Acorn, do so only in the context that he is now injured...
Strauch makes his opinions very well known to the committee but he has thus far been able to avoid any attempt to steer the committee in only one direction. Aside from Strauch, most committee members point to Dean Whitlock as the most influential among their number. Whitlock, who has 26 years of administrative experience at Harvard, knows so much about how things operate in the undergraduate sphere, that members often defer...
Special Magic. Steer wrestlers, whose goal essentially is to pin cattle to the ground in the fastest possible time, engage in hand-to-horn combat with animals four times their size. Calf ropers have developed a special magic with a lasso-to say nothing of training their horses to keep the rope taut while the roper ties together three of the calf s legs...
Struggling Cowgirls. "Rodeo is tough," says Steer Wrestler Walt Garrison, who doubles as a Dallas Cowboy running back during the football season. "You got to be in good shape." The cowboys are all business as they wait their turn to compete, watching the action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated...
Ferguson started roping chickens and cats at home in Tahlequah, Okla., when he was three. The son of a clothing retailer who was once a steer wrestler himself, Ferguson later attended California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo "because it was a good rodeo school." With him in the saddle, Cal Poly won the national intercollegiate championship three out of four years - and for the period 1967-72, Ferguson...