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Eric Sykes dunks the ball against Davidson on Thursday. USC
defeated the Wildcats but fell to Memphis State Saturday 74-72.
Fulton continues Ion
By BRANT LONG "So we decided to !
Assistant Sports Editor Fulton admits it
Tonight, a legend reaches another milestone. Columbia. In 1954
When USC takes the floor against Augusta College Baseball Game of
at the Frank McGuire Arena, the "Voice of the Game- Fulton was offered
cocks" calls his 1,000th game. more lucrative fir
Bob Fulton, a native of Ridley Park, Penn., has more things in this
been in the broadcasting business for 48 years and is Thus, the legend;
still going strong. has continued.
... ... . i , . After such an
His fns11break came in 1942 when an ad appeared numerous an(j
in a Philadelphia newspaper for open auditions at a -t, tQu . ?Q namc
Camden, New Jersey radio station. After many were n . .
eliminated, Fulton got the job,for, as Fulton said, a $ a Ume wh(
grand sum of $25 a week. team made the Uirr
In 1952, Fulton auditioned for a job with a Colum- ACC Championshi]
bia minor league baseball team, then affiliated with "We came fron
the Cincinnatti Reds organization. Fulton was only go- 87-86 in Chapel Hi
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sas, where he was working at the time, to broadcast night to greet the b;
Southwest Conference football. And on the not-s
"We liked it here so much, the station offered me so many of those."
the Carolina football and basketball job," Fulton said. "in 1947, there
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By BRANT LONG "T!
Assistant Sports editor
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Memphis State junior guard El- inei
Hot Perry stood atop the press w O
table, waving his hands like a S h (
madman while a crowd of over p|a[
9,000 sat stunned.
Four seconds remained in Saturday
afternoon's Metro Conference
contest between USC and Memphis
State at the Frank McGuire
Arena when Gamecock senior Eric "Ii
Sykes connected on two free ball
throws to give UbLa /z-/i lead. situa
After three time outs, forward whei
Ronald McClain threw the ball in Ellio
to Perry who rushed up court. Bo- he p]
jan Popovic, guarding Perry, woul
tripped and fell, leaving the Ti- N(
gers' point guard to pull up and hit poin
a 23-foot jumper with less than gam
one second left. Perry then jumped chan
on the table before being mobbed the f
by his ecstatic teammates.
"I guess that's why we have Saturday
afternoons," USC head &
coach George Felton said. "A great n"tes
college basketball game. Elliot ^it a
Perry hit a great shot . . . it's a tw0 1
tough game to lose. Elliot made a t0 11
great shot." 38-3
Memphis State head coach Chej
Larry Finch talked about the plan three
to get Perry the ball for the last Gibs
shot. three
\g career, ca
stay." in Bin
was a tough decision to stay in kept h
, he was broadcasting the Mutual ebriate
the Day. When the head man left, saying
the job. Though it would've been We di<
lancially, Fulton said, "there are "Fir
business than money." on toj
iry story began, and for 38 years, it crowd
of it a
illustrious career, you'd expect hour."
I not-so-great moments. Fulton said Fult
just one most memorable moment, ing a {
to do with the 1967-68 basketball "It'
sn Fulton says the USC basketball out of
laround that would lead to 1970-71 Full
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ill and we came back here and had "I k
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all club when they got back." world,
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j-point range in the first half "... with four
lis 1,000th ga
ningham, Ala. I was doing the ball game and I
earing this fellow who was, obviously, quite in/j.
He kept calling for his mother ... he kept
'hello ma, hello ma, I'm here in Birmingham.'
dn't know where this guy was coming from,
lally, we figured out somebody had gotten up
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mike. He had gotten up there and gotten a hold
tnd was part 01 our broadcast tor about nan an
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was not only embarrassing, but I got the hell bit
me," he said.
ton has worked with and known such famous
; as Vin Scully, Joe Garagiola and Curt Gowdy,
s one he enjoys most is Harry Caray.
mew Harry when I was broadcasting in the male's
kind of an anachronism in the sportscasting
. He's still doing his games the way he did them
its ago, but I enjoy him."
ton has been at USC continuously since 1954
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or the game. The the game be decided by the playvo
Joe Rhett free ers. I'm a firm believer in that."
/e USC a 41-38 Neverthless, Sykes sank the free
throws, but the Gamecocks fell 21
cs were led in the feet short of a victory when
) English who had Perry's three-pointer went through
also shot 65 per- ^ a74~7;? final* ,
Id in the first half 111 tel1 y?u what> that was a
were 100 per cent 1)311 Samc'" Finch said- "For
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P crnrpH on fw Gibson for the Tigers. Free throws
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!d Memphis State hi. 94 per cent for the game,
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19-foot jumper "I'm very proud of our team,"
the contest to pull Felton said. "I thought they did an
hit at 67-63. Rhett outstanding job. I can't really point
ed free throws to to any one thing. Well, I can point
xks a 70-69 ad- to one thing, Eric Sykes gave us a
1 remaining. lead. Everybody did a super job.
Ben Spiva hit a "We stayed with our game plan
shot with :35 left and just came up short," Felton
sSwasmfouiaed from added.";. was Jast a Srcat colle8e
remaining. The basketball game,
id by Tiger head USC falls to 8-6 overall and 3-2
h. in the Metro Conference. Next for
pick a guy out of the Gamecocks are the Jaguars of
e pack while the Augusta College who visit the
flight," he said. Frank McGuire tonight for a 7:30
seconds left, let p.m. tip-off.
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college networks in the country. It was former USC
head football coach Paul Dietzel who brought Fulton
back. After 38 years, Fulton still is not sure when he
will step down as the "voice."
"I don't think you should ever set a time. I want to
keep working as long as I feel comfortable and as
long as the people feel comfortable with me. I realize
that it is not going to be too much longer. I would like
to somehow keep going long enough where I could
wind up with 50 years anyway, and from there on,
take a look and see how I feel.
"What I don't want to do is stay to the point where
somebody says, 'hey, it's time for you to get out of
here.' I want to know that and get going before somebody
has to tell me." |
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A recent study by the St. Bonaventure sports information
office found that Fulton's tenure at USC was
the fifth longest among Division I basketball broadcasters.
If the state of South Carolina can be lucky
enough, Fulton's voice will be here until he is number
one.
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