Leroy Chollet
American basketball player (1924-1998) · United States · On the map · Basketball Players · Lived 1925 to 1998 · aged 73
Leroy Patrick Chollet was an American professional basketball player. Chollet and his brothers attended Holy Cross School in New Orleans and excelled in sports.
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- Ed Peterson Also played for Syracuse Nationals
Darren Fenn Also played for Canisius Golden Griffins men's basketball- Al Masino Also played for Canisius Golden Griffins men's basketball
- Bob Lochmueller Also played for Syracuse Nationals
- Bob Lavoy Also played for Syracuse Nationals
Isaiah Reese Also played for Canisius Golden Griffins men's basketball
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![Brothers Leroy and Hillary Chollet played for Canisius and Cornell respectively, after they "were run out of" 1940s New Orleans for racial reasons.[5]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Buffalo_Evening_News_Thu_Dec_30_1948.jpg/1280px-Buffalo_Evening_News_Thu_Dec_30_1948.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
About this person
After a year in the United States Navy, Chollet enrolled at Loyola University New Orleans and led the Loyola Wolf Pack to their first NAIA men's basketball championship in 1945. Louisiana schools were segregated at the time. Chollet had an African American great-grandparent, and when this was revealed he was pressured into leaving Loyola. He moved to New York and played three seasons for Canisius College. In New York, he passed as white; Canisius would later claim Chollet to be the school's first African American basketball player.
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