re: John Ferguson in World War II

Thanks for the link.

Great memories of Ferguson.

LSU 28 ND 8 1971

Grew up listening to he and Walter Hill, along with JCP in the 50's and 60's. If I remember, the radio station was out of Elec (Alexandria). His voice told you all you needed to know about the man. There were a few nationally of more fame than he, but none better.

Thanks for your service as part of the generation that allowed me and my family to live in a free country.
RIP John Ferguson.

Loved John Ferguson! I know a Bama fan that would list en to WWL just to hear him call a game! His voice would be hard to match!

It's hard to do play-by-play well. Ferguson made it sound easy.

Also did the radio for the New Orleans USFL team.

This cartoon sums it up pretty well:

I remember Politz announcing for LSU radio in the early 1950s when we listened at my Grandparents' home in DeRidder. He made the call on the 89-yard punt return on Halloween night of 1959. My Dad and I were listening in the car in our driveway in Mobile--never will forget it. I do not recall when John Ferguson began calling the football games, but it was within a few years of that game. It could be that Ferguson was calling games other than football. (In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I was playing violin in a wedding in Mobile, when Ed Keyes, minister of music and soloist, turned to me and told me the score. His wife, Jan, was listening on the radio in the congregation and was hand-signaling the score to him as he and I sat next to the piano).

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(In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I was playing violin in a wedding in Mobile, when Ed Keyes, minister of music and soloist, turned to me and told me the score. His wife, Jan, was listening on the radio in the congregation and was hand-signaling the score to him as he and I sat next to the piano).

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