Toots Mansfield

Tie-Down Roping • Inducted 1979

From 1939-50, Texas roper Toots Mansfield won seven tie-down roping world championships, a record that lasted for 19 years.  Riding Juan Salina’s black gelding Honey Boy, Mansfield was recognized as the man to beat whenever he competed. A master at handling calves on the ground, his skills led him to establish the first successful rodeo school for aspiring ropers in the mid-1950s.  From 1945-51, Mansfield served as president of the Rodeo Cowboys Association.  He was born May 15, 1914, in Bandera, Texas, and died Dec. 6, 1998.

World championships:  7 (1939-1941, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1950)
PRCA President 1945-51