Calvin Fowler
Basketball Player
1940 – 2013
Who was Calvin Fowler?
Calvin B. Fowler was the captain of the United States gold medal basketball team at the 1967 Pan American Games. He also was co-captain of the U.S. gold medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born near Pittsburgh, he graduated from David B. Oliver High School in Pittsburgh in June 1957 and Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, in 1962.
In the early 1960s, Fowler was a member of the Akron Wingfoots. Fowler was an Amateur Athletic Union All-America in 1967 and again in 1968 for Akron Goodyear Wingfoots. He would later play in the American Basketball Association for the Carolina Cougars in the 1969-70 season.
He is buried in the Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery in Hurlock, Maryland.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1940
Pittsburgh - Also known as
- Calvin Bernard Fowler
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Saint Francis University
- Died
- Mar 5, 2013
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on July 23, 2013
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