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FROM INFORMATION SERVICES MISSOULA, MONTANA 59801 PHONE 243-2522 AREA CODE 400

FOR RELEASE IMMEDIATELY amundson 3-29-67 SPORTS (local)

UM RODEO OPENS THRUSDAY NIGHT

New champions are assured in four of eight events in the three-day

University of Montana Intercollegiate Rodeo which opens Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

in the Adams Field House.

There will also be new winners in the men and women’s all-around depart­

ments, and Northern Montana College isn’t likely to repeat as men’s team champion.

The colorful grand entry, featuring the parade of contestants and officials,

starts each evening session. Thursday's opening ceremonies also include the pre­

sentation of the rodeo queen.

Queen finalists, all UM sophomores from Missoula, are Marygay Rogers, Pamela

Hallock and Sara Wilcox.

More than 100 contestants are entered from 16 schools in the Rocky Mountain

Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Men compete in bareback

riding, , saddle , ribbon roping, and bull

riding. Women's events are barrel1 racing and .

Big Bend Rodeo Co. of Davenport, Wash., will furnish livestock for the second

straight year. Two former national saddle bronc champions, Trail's End and

Tradewinds, will see action.

Cowboy judges are two professional hands, Bill Lawrence of Missoula and Russ

Gasser, Lima. Returning as announcer is Don Harrington, Butte. Gasser and Harring­

ton are former presidents of the UM Rodeo Club, sponsor of the show.

Except in bareback and where there is a large list of entries,

each event will have two go-arounds. The first go-around lasts two nights and the

top 10 will compete in the second go-around Saturday.

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Back to defend individual crowns are Nick Baldwin, Ricks College, ribbon roping; Ray Yeager, Montana State, saddle bronc riding; Bart Bailey, Utah State, steer wrestling, and Mary Agens Carraher, Western Montana, barrell racing.

Gone are Merle Gollaher, Northern Montana, men's all-around winner, and

Carole O'Rourke, MSU, who won both goat tying and women's all-around last year.

Also missing are Elray Hendricks, Ricks, ; A m i e Johnson, Northern, calf roping, and Jay Parsons, MSU, bull riding.

Gollaher and Anderson accounted for 286 1/2 of Northern's 420 1/2 winning total in 1966 and their absence leaves the men's team title up for grabs. Pro­ bable favorites to dethrown Norhtern are Montana State, last year's runner-up, and Brigham Young University, sixth a year ago but the winner in 1964 and 1965.

Utah State, Ricks, Weber State and Western Montana usually send tough teams to the UM show. Montana should improve upon its ninth place finish among 14 school last year but UM is generally known better for its than its cowboys.

For several years the indoor show here has rated with the best college rodeos

in the country. This season it opens the Rocky Mountain circuit.

In the women's division Montana State is heavily favored for its fifth

straight Missoula title. The gals from Bozeman usually rate with the best in the nation and this year have a veteran team in Greta Gustafson, Peggy Fraser and

Carol Daly.

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