Education
He graduated from Balboa High School in the Fall of 1968.
He graduated from Balboa High School in the Fall of 1968.
He collegiately played for Washington Huskies. In 1970 Calvin Jones, along with Mark Wheeler and Ira Hammon, quit the University of Washington team, holding a press conference denouncing racial discrimination on the part of the coaching staff led by coach Jim Owens. In 1971 Don Smith, an African-American, was appointed UW assistant athletic director
He asked Calvin Jones to return to the UW. Calvin Jones became an All-American for UW in 1972.