[5] He began his career calling Cotton States League games in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1942.
[3] When World War II started, Ferguson enlisted in the army as an Army Air pilot completing 144 missions piloting cargo planes over the Himalayas between India and China, supplying B-29s for their bombing runs.
[1] After World War II, Ferguson moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and when WJBO-AM won the rights to LSU games they asked if he was available and he took the job.
[3] Because of this, Ferguson was not the announcer for Billy Cannon's Halloween run versus Ole Miss in 1959.
[10] He died in 2005 at the age of 86 in Zachary, Louisiana[2][11] and was interred at Port Hudson National Cemetery.