Education
Shanholt graduated from Boys High School where he was the school’s star soccer forward. He attended Columbia University, playing on the school’s soccer team from 1912 to 1915.
Shanholt graduated from Boys High School where he was the school’s star soccer forward. He attended Columbia University, playing on the school’s soccer team from 1912 to 1915.
Club
He was a 1913 and 1914 First Team All American and team captain in 1914 and 1915. Even during his college years, Shanholt also played for local club teams. In 1912, he scored the winning goal as Central Young Men’s Christian Association took the Field Club League championship.
He scored 11 goals across all competitions for Brooklyn that season.
According to the 1914-1915 Spalding Football Guide, Shanholt’s cousin was a reserve player with Brooklyn. Shanholt continued to play for Brooklyn through the 1914-1915 season, but left the team on October 18, 1915.
In 1916, he graduated from Columbia with a bachelor"s degree in mathematics. In the fall of 1917, Shanholt played for Jersey City.
In 1919, Shanholt joined Brooklyn Robins Dry Dock for one season.
International
In 1916, Shanholt was called up to the United States men"s national soccer team for its European tour. He declined to join the team in order to finish his master’s degree at Columbia. Shanholt also played cricket.
In October 1916, Shanholt gained a license as a high school mathematics “teacher in training”.
He taught five years at Stuyvesant High School and three years at Rhodes Preparatory School. In 1923, he taught at The University Preparatory School.
By 1949, he was the head of mathematics at Abraham Lincoln High School. Shanholt cowrote numerous mathematics textbooks during the early 1940s.