Jim Bob Altizer

Jim Bob Altizer was born on May 5, 1932, in Del Rio, Texas, to Olin and Estella Cauthorn Altizer.^[2]

He was the Texas state high school calf-roping champion in 1947 and the U.S. national high school calf-roping champion in 1948.^[3] He graduated from Del Rio High School, also in 1948.^[4] He turned professional in 1950.^[3]

He won the calf-roping world championship at the inaugural National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in 1959, and the steer-roping world championship at the National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR) in 1967.^[5] He qualified for the NFR as a calf roper ten times and the NFSR six times.^[6] He won numerous rodeo titles throughout his career, and retired in 1976.^[3]

Throughout his life, Altizer was a Texas border ranchman.^[7]

Altizer died^[8] on December 12, 1997, in Del Rio, Texas,^[5] of cancer,^[9] at the age of 65.

His older sister Blanche Altizer Smith was a professional rodeo cowgirl herself,^[10] as was his daughter Sherry.^[11]

His son Mack was a professional rodeo stock contractor for many years as the owner of Bad Company Rodeo.^[12]

• In 1979, Jim Bob Altizer was one of the inaugural inductees into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.^[5]
• In 1995, he was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.^[3]
• He was posthumously inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2003,^[6] the Texas Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2004,^[2] and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009.^[13]