STATISTICS & HISTORY
Eckhardt “Ecky” Calder was a football, basketball and baseball star at Montclair, New Jersey High School. In 1911, Calder, became a student at St. Lawrence University, a tiny school in upstate New York, where he also excelled in the same three sports for the next two years. Calder was retroactively as named by the Helms Foundation to the 1913 All-America basketball team and was chosen as the 1913 College Basketball Player of the Year. In the fall of 1913, he transferred to Columbia University, where during the 1913-1914 school year, he starred in football and basketball. Calder was eligible to play one more season of collegiate sports at Columbia, but he did not return to school in the fall of 1914. Calder remained active in basketball for the remainder of the decade, mostly with powerful independent teams such as the Brooklyn Crescent AC and the Brooklyn Knights.
| ECKY CALDER | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 180 | College: | St.Lawrence’13/Columbia’14 | |||||
| Eckhardt Calder | Born: Oct 4, 1890 | Died: May 4, 1969 | Hometown: | Montclair, NJ | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1911-12 | St. Lawrence | College | |||||||||
| 1912-13 | St.Lawrence | College | |||||||||
| 3-14 | Columbia | College | |||||||||
| 1914-15 | East Orange Commonwealth AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1915-16 | East Orange Commonwealth AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1915-16 | Montclair (NJ) Holy Name Five | Indep | |||||||||
| 1916-17 | Montclair (NJ) Big Five | Indep | |||||||||
| 1916-17 | Elizabeth (NJ) | Indep | |||||||||
| 1916-17 | Hoboken | IBL | 13 | 26 | 21 | 73 | 5.6 | ||||
| 1917-18 | Bridgeport–Jersey City | CSL | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 3.3 | ||||
| 1917-18 | Carbondale–Plymouth | PSL | 9 | 12 | 18 | 42 | 4.7 | ||||
| 1917-18 | Brooklyn Crescent AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1918-19 | Brooklyn Crescent AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1918-19 | New York Knickerbockers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1918-19 | Brooklyn Crescent AC | AAU | |||||||||
| 1918-19 | Hoboken Tietjen & Lang Shipyard | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Jersey City–Ansonia | IBL | 8 | 15 | 18 | 48 | 6.0 | ||||
| 1919-20 | Brooklyn Crescent AC | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Ansonia | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | New York Lyceum | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Waterbury | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Hoboken | Indep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | Holyoke | IL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | ||||
| 1920-21 | Perth Amboy | Indep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | Brooklyn Knights | Indep | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 34 | 58 | 58 | 174 | 5.1 | ||||||