Calvin Graham, Men's basketball (1965-67): Cal Graham was one of the finest forwards to put on a Gannon uniform in the university's glorious basketball history.
Calvin Graham, 2023
He averaged 9.4 rebounds per game in a two-year GU career that spanned 1965-66 and 1966-67. That still ranks him seventh on Gannon's all-time list. (He ranked third when he left Gannon.)
Graham also was a solid scorer who racked up 658 points in his two seasons.
His biggest season came in 1966-67 when he scored 425 points and pulled down 309 rebounds, a total that ranks 11th in Gannon's history. Graham averaged 15.7 points and 11.4 rebounds per game that season. Graham compiled those numbers despite being just 6 feet 3 inches. He used his tremendous leaping ability to score and grab rebounds.
Graham was a key member of a the 1965-66 team that went 20-3 and the 1966-67 team that went 18-9.
He had career highs of 30 points against Tennessee State on Dec. 20, 1966, and 22 rebounds against Alliance on Feb. 15, 1967.
Following his college career, Graham spent the 1967-68 season in the American Basketball Association as was a member of the Pittsburgh Pipers.
He is a native of the Bronx in New York and played at Morris High School. He spent two years at Scott's Bluff Junior College in Nebraska, now known as Western Nebraska Community College, before joining Gannon.
At the time of his induction, she was President and Owner of Graham & Graham Security, a company that he founded in Sewickley in 1996. The company had expanded to more than 200 employees in three states.
Calvin and his wife, Brenda, have two daughters, Micah Southwood and Melva Graham, along with three grandchildren.
