Ernest N. Calhoun (1971) - Janet E. and Barry C. Burkholder Athletics Hall of Fame

Ernest N. Calhoun

Induction:
1971
Class:
1918

Ernest Calhoun was a three-year varsity letterwinner in basketball from 1916 to 1918. Calhoun, or “Cal” as his friends called him, served as team captain in his senior year. The captain took an additional leadership roles as the team had no coach during the 1917-18 season.

Calhoun was also renowned for his involvement in myriad areas of the Drexel community. Calhoun accepted an active role in college life from the moment he set foot on Drexel’s campus, serving as the student-body’s athletics representative in all four of his years at Drexel. As a sophomore he became the assistant athletics editor of the Lexerd yearbook and he was also a member of the Dramatic Society and the Debating Society in his sophomore and junior years. Calhoun, who graduated in 1918 with a degree in electrical engineering, was known around campus as an articulate individual and was anecdotally referred to as the “class orator.”