http://www.kcwy13.com/story.php?id=6265
November 23, 2009
Reported by Catherine Bilkey
Monday, ROTC cadets at the University of Wyoming participated in the school’s annual Bronze Boot Run. Cadets ran the game ball for the CSU/Wyoming game to the Colorado border, where CSU cadets took over.
"It's been going on since 1968, and it's a bronze boot run. There's a trophy that goes between CSU and Wyoming,” Cadet Luke Meyer said. “Whoever wins the game between CSU and Wyoming wins the trophy."
Each year the game ball is carried by relays of the visiting team to the Colorado/Wyoming border where the home team takes the ball the rest of the way to the stadium. The entire run is about 65 miles.
"It's a tradition that's been going on for a long time,” Cadet Rowdy Fichtner said. “It's just supposed to raise morale.”
During the run, one cadet carries the flag while the other carries the ball, which is made even harder in windy weather.
"The hill and this wind and holding the flag...the flag tends to slow you down quite a bit," Meyer said.
But, the cadets braved the weather.
"I mean it's Wyoming...and it's November...so it's going to be cold and windy,” Meyer said.
UW will play CSU Friday at noon.
November 23, 2009
Reported by Catherine Bilkey
Monday, ROTC cadets at the University of Wyoming participated in the school’s annual Bronze Boot Run. Cadets ran the game ball for the CSU/Wyoming game to the Colorado border, where CSU cadets took over.
"It's been going on since 1968, and it's a bronze boot run. There's a trophy that goes between CSU and Wyoming,” Cadet Luke Meyer said. “Whoever wins the game between CSU and Wyoming wins the trophy."
Each year the game ball is carried by relays of the visiting team to the Colorado/Wyoming border where the home team takes the ball the rest of the way to the stadium. The entire run is about 65 miles.
"It's a tradition that's been going on for a long time,” Cadet Rowdy Fichtner said. “It's just supposed to raise morale.”
During the run, one cadet carries the flag while the other carries the ball, which is made even harder in windy weather.
"The hill and this wind and holding the flag...the flag tends to slow you down quite a bit," Meyer said.
But, the cadets braved the weather.
"I mean it's Wyoming...and it's November...so it's going to be cold and windy,” Meyer said.
UW will play CSU Friday at noon.
