Name Ron Ferguson Years Team | Playing position Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Role Economist | |
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Full name Ronald Charles Ferguson Date of birth (1957-02-09)9 February 1957 Books Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap Education Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
Place of birth Accrington, England | ||
Ron ferguson on overcoming the achievement gap
Ronald Charles Ferguson (born 9 February 1957), known as Ron or Ronnie Ferguson, is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Sheffield Wednesday, Scunthorpe United and Darlington, and in the Belgian League for Racing Jet de Bruxelles and La Louvière, in the 1970s and 1980s. He played as a forward.
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- Ron ferguson on overcoming the achievement gap
- Ron ferguson helping students navigate the worlds in which they live
- Life and career
- References
Ron ferguson helping students navigate the worlds in which they live
Life and career
Ferguson was born in Accrington, Lancashire, and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, He began his football career as a youngster with Sheffield Wednesday, and made his first-team debut on 9 November 1974, a couple of months after his 17th birthday; he scored the opening goal in a 3–0 defeat of York City in the Second Division. He finished the season with eleven appearances. In December 1975, he joined Fourth Division club Scunthorpe United on loan; he played three times without scoring. Sheffield Wednesday released Ferguson in the second half of the 1975–76 season, and he signed for Fourth Division Darlington, for whom he scored the only goal of the game against Torquay United on 15 March 1976.
In December 1976, Ferguson scored the only goal of the match to eliminate Wednesday from the 1976–77 FA Cup. The powerful drive from a distance estimated at anything from 30 to 50 yards (25 to 45 m) was voted best goal ever seen at Darlington's Feethams ground in a 2003 poll on the occasion of the ground's closure. Two weeks later, he scored in the local derby with Hartlepool in less spectacular fashion, "scrambl[ing] in the equaliser" after an hour of the match. In something over four seasons with Darlington, he scored 18 goals from 114 league appearances.
In 1980, Ferguson joined Belgian Second Division team Racing Jet de Bruxelles. He spent six seasons with the Brussels-based club, during which time they were relegated to the third tier, enjoyed two successive promotions to spend the 1984–85 season in the First Division, and were relegated back to the Second. They were promoted in 1986, but that year Ferguson moved on to La Louvière, where he spent three seasons playing in the third tier.