Kellogg entered Manhattan College in 1949 and was the first African-American to play basketball for the school. In 1951, Kellogg was noted for refusing a $1,000 bribe to shave points during basketball games. He contacted his coach Ken Norton who then called the authorities and touched off the largest college betting scandal in American history. Ultimately, the investigation involved 32 players from seven colleges and encompassed 86 games between 1947 and 1950. After graduating in 1953, he began playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. In 1954, he sustained a cervical spinal cord injury in an automobile accident and was paralyzed. Despite a grim prognosis, Kellogg went through several years of therapy to regain the use of his arms and hands. He was inducted into the Jasper Hall of Fame in 1979 and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association’s Hall of Fame in 1981.