The Team Roping Journal

The Evolution of Team Roping

1960

By the late 1960s, dally team roping began in California, where they pushed to include it in mainstream rodeo events. By this time Leo, Reg and Jerrold Camarillo became the first recognizable household names to everyone in the roping world.

1980

By 1980, the need for handicapping was obvious as team roping was not growing. The in California and the Texas Roping Association—which would become the Coors Roping Association—took a stab at creating handicapping systems.

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