Dave Zinkoff (May 15, 1910 – December 25, 1985) was a sports public address announcer. He announced for the

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in the 1940s and at the

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for the

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, and college

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

and

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teams from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Zinkoff was also one of the rotating group of ring announcers for the monthly World Wrestling Federation(now

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) events at the

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. Zinkoff worked

Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at Hershey Sports Arena in ...

at Hershey Arena on March 2, 1962. Zinkoff died on December 25, 1985, following complications from heart surgery.''The NBA on CBS'' Halftime with Pat O'Brien: December 25, 1985 On March 25, 1986, three months to the day after his death, the 76ers retired his microphone. Dave Zinkoff was posthumously inducted into the

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Hall of Fame on November 22, 2013.

References

External links

76ers bio of Zinkoff
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