Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives Photograph Collection, 1890-1982
Date
1982-04
Decade
1980s
Subject (LCSH)
College students
Athletes
Agricultural exhibitions
Horses
Sports
Livestock
Subject (local)
New Mexico State University. Athletic Department
Aggie Rodeo Association
Historical context
''Wanting to be eligible for intercollegiate rodeo competition and to make an annual affair of the College-Ranch Hands' Rodeo - which started last year in a blaze of colorful handkerchiefs and western garb-twenty rodeo-minded Aggies, sponsored by the athletic department and the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Posse, this year organized the New Mexico Aggie Rodeo Association.'' Cited from Swastika, Volume, 36, 1942, p.134. ''Jim Dewey Brown was the team's first official coach who was hired in 2002... Under Brown's leadership, Corbett said, ''The team took a drastic turn for the better,'' transforming the team from a loosely organized athletics program established in 1942 to a nationally dominating force.'' Cited from Las Cruces Sun News/2017/04/03/nmsu-rodeo-team-celebrates-75-years.
Provenance
University Communications
New Mexico State University. Department of Information Services
Extent
5 x 7 in.
Notes
Rodeo participants of calf-roping competition with large group watching on.