Condredge Holloway excelled at both baseball and football. He was a shortstop on the baseball team and quarterback of the football team from 1972 to 1974, the first African American quarterback to start in the SEC. During his three years as the Vols’ signal caller, he guided UT to a 25-9-2 record and amassed 4,068 yards as both a passer and a runner. He was known as “The Artful Dodger.”
He had been the fourth overall selection in the 1971 major league baseball draft, but he turned down the Montreal Expos to attend UT. As a baseball player at UT, he led the SEC in batting average (.396) in 1975, and was named a first-team All-American. He was the first African American baseball player at UT.
In 1975 he began a career of 13 seasons in the Canadian Football League, passing for more than 25,000 yards in a career that took him to Ottawa, Toronto, and British Columbia. He was named the league’s Most Valuable Player in 1982 while he was with the Toronto Argonauts. He also won the Schenley Award in 1982, and he played in three Grey Cup contests, winning in 1976 and 1983. He retired as a player in 1987 and joined the staff of the UT Athletics Department as assistant/associate athletics director for Player Relations and Lettermen.
In 1999 he was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and was elected to the UT Baseball Hall of Fame only a few months later. He has been inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, and his jersey was retired by the Argonauts. He was named to UT’s 100th anniversary team and is a member of UT’s African American Hall of Fame.
ESPN aired a documentary about Holloway on February 2, 2011, The Color Orange: The Condredge Holloway Story. The documentary was produced by country music star and longtime UT fan Kenny Chesney.
Holloway’s baseball jersey, (Number 1) was retired April 25, 2015, at Lindsey Nelson Stadium prior to the game with South Carolina.