1951.
In 2018, Erskine College announced the return of the football program for the 2020 season competing as an Independent in NCAA Division II. In 2021, The Flying Fleet played its first football game in 70 years.
== Notable people ==
=== Alumni ===
Susan Audé – WIS-TV news anchor
Erskine Caldwell – author (attended, but did not graduate)
Rex L. Carter – lawyer and politician
Beth Couture – head coach of the Butler Bulldogs women's basketball team
Lawrence Cowan – Arizona territorial, legislator, judge, lawyer, and businessman
Tom Ervin – member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Alphonza Gadsden – bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Thomas S. Gettys – U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
Charles Haldeman – novelist
Joseph T. Johnson – U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. district judge
Ira B. Jones – former South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice and gubernatorial candidate
Thomas G. Long – Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University
Henry …
