In New York, he passed as white; Canisius would later claim Chollet to be the school's first African American basketball player.

The Elmira Colonels, an American Basketball League team, signed Chollet for his third and final season.

In Lakewood, Chollet worked on the construction of St. Edward High School and became a teacher and varsity head coach.

He was inducted into the Halls of Fame of Holy Cross School, Loyola University, and Canisius College.

[8] He attended Loyola University in New Orleans from 1944 to 1945 as a student athlete,[3] during a season that played out against the backdrop of World War II.

Loyola alumni followed the team from overseas, writing battlefield letters back to the current players,[9] and the school held Mass in memory of former students who were killed in action.

[12] During his first year, Chollet led the Loyola Wolf Pack to Louisiana's first national basketball championship.

[14] In the low-scoring semi-finals of the 1945 NAIA basketball tournament, Loyola fell behind 30–21 before Chollet and team captain John Casteix led the Wolf Pack on a late-game scoring run; they beat Southern Illinois by a single basket.

[16] His younger brother, Hillary Chollet, had become a high school football star, recruited by rival colleges Louisiana State University and Tulane.

Loyola teammate, Sam Ciolino, later reflected, "The family left because you would get shut out of a lot of things if you were black.

[17] Amidst public rumors of their African American ancestry, the Chollet parents endured harassment, the family was ostracized socially, and both brothers were pushed out of New Orleans' white universities.

[5] According to journalist Mark Bernstein, their church made them "feel unwelcome", and "Tulane quietly suggested that Chollet might find it difficult to go there".

[24] Canisius sold out the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium for the first time,[25] and the school played games in Madison Square Garden to audiences of over 17,000 fans.

Louisiana newspapers did not publish information on their ancestry,[21] and the family was not a part of the local black community.

[31] The NBA was ostensibly a white league at the beginning,[32] with Wataru Misaka, an American of Japanese descent, the only openly non-white player.

[33] The Nationals were led by future Basketball Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes, all-star Billy Gabor, and player-coach Al "The Digger" Cervi.

[37] Chollet became a top scorer in the ABL;[38] he was recalled by Syracuse mid-season,[39] but barely played after an early ankle injury.

[43] He was an administrator for community sports programs at the Lakewood Recreation Department from 1960 to 1980 and tended bar at Kluck's, a local landmark.