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Harris, Jones Selected For North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
Bob Harris, marking his 30th anniversary season as the radio voice of the Blue Devils, has been selected for enshrinement in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame this year. The list of 10 inductees for 2006 also includes former Duke football player Steve Jones, formerly of Sanford, N.C.
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1963 and includes 233 members. The 43rd annual induction ceremony is set for May 11 at the North Raleigh Hilton.
“It’s a great honor and one I am extremely proud of,” Harris said. “I appreciate those who nominated me and the members and committee who elected me. It’s not something that’s a goal or something that you think about while doing your job, it’s something others choose to bestow on you.”
Along with Harris and Jones, the 2006 honorees include high school athletics executive Charlie Adams, former Wake Forest football player and fundraiser Bob Bartholomew, former major league baseball manager Dave Bristol, N.C. State fundraiser Charlie Bryant, former Furman basketball star Darrell Floyd, retired Charlotte sports columnist Ron Green Sr., former high school athletics executive Simon Terrell and Maryland athletics director Debbie Yow.
“These 10 men and women have brought honor to our state both locally and nationally,” said Bobby Vaughan, president of the Hall. “Honoring individuals who have excelled outside the boundaries of the playing field, in addition to those who played the games, makes our N.C. Sports Hall of Fame very special.”
Harris, from Albemarle, N.C., has been the voice of Duke football and basketball for 30 years and also hosts the school’s TV coaches shows. His basketball career has spanned 11 NCAA Final Four trips, eight championship game appearances and three national titles. He is scheduled to call his 1,000th Duke basketball game this season.
A past president of the Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association, Harris twice has been honored as the state’s sportscaster of the year. He has also received the Robert Marlowe and Ray Reeve awards for sports broadcasting.
Harris, 63, recently missed the Duke-Bucknell game for medical reasons, but was back at the microphone for the Wake Forest game on Sunday. Other than the occasional football-basketball overlap, it was just the third game he’s missed in 30 years.
Steve Jones, one of Duke’s top football players of the 1970s, played for two North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame coaches during his career. As a running back under legendary coach Paul Gay at Sanford High, he helped his school win 36 of 39 games and three straight state 3-A championships. In 1968 he rushed for 1,800 yards and 28 touchdowns.
At Duke, Jones lettered for the 1970-72 Blue Devils, first under coach Tom Harp, then under future Hall of Famer Mike McGee. Jones set the Duke single season rushing record in 1972 when he ran for 1,236 yards, a mark that still stands. He also set the career rushing mark with 2,951 yards, which stood for 31 years until Chris Douglas topped the 3,000-yard plateau in 2003.
Jones had a school record 13 games of 100 yards or more rushing and scored 20 rushing touchdowns. Jones was the ACC player of the year and a third team All-America selection as a senior in ’72. He played six years in the NFL and now resides in St. Louis. He was inducted in the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.
