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Pro Rodeo

All-Around Champion Cowboy

Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas, successfully defended his unofficial title of world’s best cowboy and roped in his second straight All-Around Champion Cowboy belt buckle at the 2003 National Finals Rodeo held Dec. 5-14 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old finished with a near-record earnings total of $294,839. Brazile is just the 10th cowboy to win back-to-back world all-around titles and did so in dominating fashion, specializing in three events (tie-down roping, team roping and steer roping). Tie-down roper, and 2001 all-around champ, Cody Ohl finished second with $222,025.

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) title of all-around world champion cowboy goes to the rodeo athlete who wins the most prize money in a single year in two or more events, earning a minimum of $3,000 in each event. Only prize money earned in sanctioned PRCA rodeos is counted. From 1929-44, all-around champions were named by the Rodeo Association of America (earnings for those years are not available).

Multiple winners: Ty Murray (7); Tom Ferguson and Larry Mahan (6); Jim Shoulders (5); Joe Beaver, Lewis Feild and Dean Oliver (3); Everett Bowman, Trevor Brazile, Louis Brooks, Clay Carr, Bill Linderman, Phil Lyne, Gerald Roberts, Casey Tibbs and Harry Tompkins (2).

Year
1929	Earl Thode
1930	Clay Carr
1931	John Schneider
1932	Donald Nesbit
1933	Clay Carr
1934	Leonard Ward
1935	Everett Bowman
1936	John Bowman
1937	Everett Bowman
1938	Burel Mulkey
1939	Paul Carney
1940	Fritz Truan
1941	Homer Pettigrew
1942	Gerald Roberts
1943	Louis Brooks
1944	Louis Brooks
1945-46 No award

Year		Earnings
1947	Todd Whatley	$18,642
1948	Gerald Roberts	21,766
1949	Jim Shoulders	21,495

1950	Bill Linderman	30,715
1951	Casey Tibbs	29,104
1952	Harry Tompkins	30,934
1953	Bill Linderman	33,674
1954	Buck Rutherford	40,404
1955	Casey Tibbs	42,065
1956	Jim Shoulders	43,381
1957	Jim Shoulders	33,299
1958	Jim Shoulders	32,212
1959	Jim Shoulders	32,905

1960	Harry Tompkins	$32,522
1961	Benny Reynolds	31,309
1962	Tom Nesmith	32,611
1963	Dean Oliver	31,329
1964	Dean Oliver	31,150
1965	Dean Oliver	33,163
1966	Larry Mahan	40,358
1967	Larry Mahan	51,996
1968	Larry Mahan	49,129
1969	Larry Mahan	57,726

1970	Larry Mahan	41,493
1971	Phil Lyne	49,245
1972	Phil Lyne	60,852
1973	Larry Mahan	$64,447
1974	Tom Ferguson	66,929
1975	Tom Ferguson	50,300
1976	Tom Ferguson	87,908
1977	Tom Ferguson	65,981
1978	Tom Ferguson	83,734
1979	Tom Ferguson	96,272

1980	Paul Tierney	105,568
1981	Jimmie Cooper	105,861
1982	Chris Lybbert	123,709
1983	Roy Cooper	153,391
1984	Dee Pickett	122,618
1985	Lewis Feild	130,347
1986	Lewis Feild	$166,042
1987	Lewis Feild	144,335
1988	Dave Appleton	121,546
1989	Ty Murray	134,806

1990	Ty Murray	213,772
1991	Ty Murray	244,231
1992	Ty Murray	$225,992
1993	Ty Murray	297,896
1994	Ty Murray	246,170
1995	Joe Beaver	141,753
1996	Joe Beaver	166,103
1997	Dan Mortensen	184,559
1998	Ty Murray	$264,673
1999	Fred Whitfield	217,819

2000	Joe Beaver	225,396
2001	Cody Ohl	296,419
2002	Trevor Brazile	273,998
2003	Trevor Brazile	294,839