Year Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown 71-72 HJ 6-4 165 Fr Naples 72-73 HJ 6-5 170 So Naples 73-74 HJ 6-5 170 Jr Naples 74-75 HJ 6-5 170 Sr Naples
| Bob Perrone |
Full Name: Robert Gary Perrone, Jr. School: Naples High School in Naples, Florida Legacy Bricks: Legacy Walk Map Link 2018 Moore-Stone Award HOF - Loc 95 |
| FSU Career |
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Year Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown 71-72 HJ 6-4 165 Fr Naples 72-73 HJ 6-5 170 So Naples 73-74 HJ 6-5 170 Jr Naples 74-75 HJ 6-5 170 Sr Naples |
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| Member of the FSU Hall of Fame |
| Elected into the FSU Hall of Fame in 2018 | ||
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Bob Perrone was a four-year high jumper for the FSU track team from 1972-1975 and while he scored in several meets his greatest feat come chronicling Seminole athletics as a historian. He has
assembled the records for every Seminole athlete and team to wear the garnet and gold. In 1999, Bob began to research and publish online the complete history of athletics - teams and individuals - at his University. By 2007, he had posted the records and accomplishments of all of FSU Athletics on his Nolefan.org website. He spent thousands of hours gathering newspaper articles, box scores, media guides, game and match records, team rosters and photographs. Making countless journeys from his Jacksonville, Fla. home to scour FSU's files for the written history of Seminole athletics, he has uncovered new information, organized and codified the statistics, then published them online in a research-friendly database. Today, Nolefan.org is a definitive record of the history of FSU Athletics, containing the individual records of more than 10,000 athletes and each of our past and current sports programs. Bob continues to update individual and team records as they change each week. Through his volunteer efforts and at his own expense, the records of Florida State athletics can be accessed from office, home and mobile device. The Historian of FSU's Hall of Fame and Recognition Committee since 2007, he was awarded the Circle of Gold Award by the Alumni Association for his service. He recently retired after a long career as a technologist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In over 70 years of FSU Athletics, no volunteer has devoted more time and effort to preserve our history than Bob Perrone. From the Osceola, May 22, 2020, by Bob Ferrante in Fan experience. Perrone's site a treasured link to FSU athletics history.
But Perrone was a programmer by trade and was also motivated to blend his new skills with his love of Florida State athletics. And what he began to create has become the best historical resource for 'Noles young and old, from players and coaches to fans and writers: Nolefan.org. He began with the key elements to start the site: For each game, he included the date, location, opponent and score. "I started with the basic stuff on the three main sports: football, men's basketball and baseball," Perrone said. "During my lunch hour I would go to the Duval County library, go to newspapers and find information." The first resources were papers like the Florida Times-Union and Tallahassee Democrat. Perrone soon was combing through media guides and the Report to Boosters (published at the time in partnership with the Osceola staff) to add details to Nolefan.org. Rob Wilson, then the FSU football sports information director and now an associate athletics director for communications, and men's basketball sports information director Chuck Walsh were helpful in answering questions as well as opening up the department's file room. It was there that the site began to grow from one that featured rows of dates and scores to one that was loaded with details, stories and photos. "I think Bob's work is the greatest volunteer work in the history of Florida State athletics," said Doug Mannheimer, an FSU graduate who is also keeper of the Sod Cemetery. "If you totally preserve the history of every athlete and every event we've ever held, that's pretty monumental." Perrone was asked in 2007 to help with the FSU athletics hall of fame selection committee as a historian and agreed. But that also came with the responsibility of expanding to include all of FSU's sports teams. The bar had been raised for Perrone, who was a high jumper at FSU in the 1970s, and he was up for the hours of work that came next. The site features a little bit of everything, from game results and box scores to top-10 lists to coaching records to old stories from the Tallahassee Democrat's Bill McGrotha and Seminoles.com to team photos and media guide covers. There is also a comprehensive alphabetical index of FSU's student-athletes: All-Americans in each sport have a page but then again so do walk-ons past and present. And, yes, there are more than 10,000 player pages. Adding a single basketball game to Nolefan.org can take Perrone about 10 minutes. So one can imagine how many hours over the course of years he spent accumulating all of the information that is now easily at our fingertips. "The site is here for sports information, for writers, for fans but especially for the athletes and their families," Perrone said. "There have been a couple of times where grandchildren and children have sent me an email and asked about their relative. That's especially rewarding. "One time a football player had died and his grandchild sent me an email and didn't even know how good a player he was. I was able to send the grandchild a couple of extra things. They really appreciated it. That's one of the best things about doing this website." And perhaps it is fitting that because of all his work Perrone was enshrined in the FSU athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. Perrone has poured all of the hours into the site and what's remarkable about it, beyond its accuracy and ease of use, is that it's free. He says the annual costs for Nolefan.org are minimal and he's happy to keep the site free. While Perrone doesn't track how many monthly or annual visitors go to the site it has become a trusted resource for FSU fans who are taking a trip down memory lane or beat writers who are looking to verify stats before publishing a story. Accuracy has always been paramount as Perrone expanded the site. And with each search, every trip down memory lane, a fun reminder even for FSU athletes from decades ago. "I can't tell you how many athletes that I've known - they don't know about it," Mannheimer said. "I email them the link and they say, 'Here's my whole career.' "I say, 'Yeah, you can't lie about it now.' "
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| FSU Statistics |
| Track & Field |
Date Opponent/Meet Event Place Results Points Comment
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1972 Season
05/13/1972 SE Independent Championship High Jump 5 6- 2 1.88m 1
1973 Season
03/10/1973 FAMU Relays High Jump 3 6- 2 1.88m 2
05/05/1973 Florida High Jump 4 6- 4 1.93m
1974 Season
03/23/1974 FSU Invitational High Jump 4 6- 0 1.83m 2
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