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Ferguson was born in Institute and was educated from pre-school to college exclusively on the campus of WVSU, earning a bachelor's degree in education in 1963.
He lettered in basketball, tennis and golf. As a freshman guard, he and his team earned the CIAA basketball championship in 1949-50. Ferguson was the head coach of the freshman basketball team from 1956-58, and in 1960-61, he was the assistant coach of State's varsity basketball team.
On the tennis court, Ferguson was the number three player on the 1949-50 tennis team. Remaining undefeated in singles, he also won the CIAA doubles conference title with Ernest Holland after a victory against Virginia Union.
After Ferguson was defeated by Arthur Ashe in the 1960-61 quarter finals of the American Tennis Association tournament in Xenia, Ohio, he went on to create the first tennis program for inner city children in Harlem, New York in 1965 as a teacher the New York City Board of Education and athletic director for the New York Children's Aid Society.
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