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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Jayhawk Rodeo Club sponsors college rodeo
AH-H-H-H!!
Photo by Bruce Patterson
Jerry Lippincott, Prairie Village freshman, hits the ground after a practice ride on a rodeo bull. He is preparing for the KU Rodeo April 26-28 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
The second annual KU Rodeo will begin with the chant, "Let's go, let's show, let's rodeo," followed by a grand entry including all the contestants and horses in the event.
Sponsored by the Jayhawk Rodeo Club, the rodeo will be held April 26-28 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
The rodeo club was formed three years ago at KU by Kent Hewitt, who now attends Ft. Scott College, and Jan Vandeventer, Raytown, Mo., junior. It has grown from an initial membership of 15 to 75 since then.
As a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) the club last year sponsored a rodeo which turned into a financial flop.
"I think it was partly because we tried to do too much for a
She said the rodeo was a success from a competitive standpoint but bad weather over the weekend caused many people to stay away.
small club," said Miss Vandeventer.
The club wants to declare a "Western Week" in Lawrence one week prior to the rodeo. They hope to get support from Lawrence merchants for this and to advertise more extensively than they did last year.
The rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Each show will include an intrafraternity steer riding contest.
In this contest four-man teams from KU fraternities catch steers which are running loose in the arena. They then saddle the animals and with one team member
riding, try to pull them into a circle marked in the center of the arena. The first team in the circle is awarded a prize.
The men will compete in bareback brone riding, saddle brone riding, bulldogging, calf roping, ribbon roping and bull riding, which usually comes last in the program.
The two women's events are barrel racing and goat tying.
Contestants pay a $15 entry fee for each event they enter which goes exclusively toward prize money that ranges as high as $250 for a first place.
Points for the first four places are given in each event and recorded at the NIRA office. These points count toward a contestant's chances of entering the national NIRA finals, held during the summer.
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