Known as the “Voice of the Cowboys.” Birleffi covered every University of Wyoming football and basketball game for nearly forty years. A 1942 graduate of the University of Wyoming and native of Hartville, he became the “Voice of the Cowboys” in 1947 and continued broadcasting Cowboy games through 1986. Birleffi’s journalism career began in 1937 when he was writing for UW’s campus newspaper, The Branding Iron. He went on to become a newspaper journalist and columnist and began his broadcasting career at radio station KFBC in Cheyenne. He later owned that station and the rights to the Wyoming football and basketball broadcasts. The War Memorial Stadium Working Press Area was named in his honor in 1992. Less