Scott Goble, a Vanguard graduate and former Texas A&M yell leader, is seen at center right swatting a bull with a rolled-up newspaper while wearing his yell leader outfit.
Photo submitted by Rod Goble

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Running with the bulls on the third day of the San Fermin Festival were Waco’s Raymond Harper and his wife, Ana Lozano-Harper. Raymond (center, in Texas shirt), who works for Texas Farm Bureau, is seen here with wife Ana (slightly obscured behind him) as the bulls raced down Santo Domingo Street. Though the run usually ends in two to three minutes, Ana, a Tribune-Herald advertising representative, said it lasted nearly 6½ minutes because one of the bulls got confused and ran back up one of the streets before resuming in the right direction.
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Army Capt. Scott Goble learned a valuable lesson during his July 11 afternoon session of running with the bulls in Spain: don’t lock eyes with a bull.

Goble, a 29-year military prosecutor with the Judge Advocate Group, is stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, and decided he wanted to spend that day in the famed running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. As a tribute to his days as an Aggie yell leader, the 2004 Texas A&M graduate donned his white yell leader outfit for the run through the streets and into the arena.

On the way, Goble swatted the bulls with a rolled-up newspaper, a tradition among the bravest runners. Goble, a 1999 graduate of Vanguard College Preparatory School in Waco and Texas Tech law school, beat the last bull into the arena, so he was afforded the privilege of being chased around the stadium by a set of fresh bulls.

Goble said he made a mistake by “locking eyeballs” with a bull, who charged and flipped Goble over his back. The bull missed him with his horns and Goble was not injured.

He is the son of Rod Goble and Linda Tinsley.

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