While going to college he lettered in four sports (the first person to achieve that at UCLA) football, track, basketball and of course, baseball. During his football career he was a quarterback and was one of four black players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team (3 of these four including Robinson made up three of the four backfield players).Also only a few black players played mainstream college football, making UCLA the most integrated team in college football with only four black players. ... Ironically, while in college, baseball was considered his worst sport. ...

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Football was all white. ... He was good enough that he earned a college scholarship to play baseball at Pasadena Junior College. ... Most recently, this topic has been debated in the National Football League. ... "According to the Black Coaches Association (BCA), ethnic minorities represent only 2.7% (15 of 547) of head coaches at all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions (not including those coaching at historically black colleges and universities), while ethnic minorities make up more than 50% of the student-athletes playing college football" (Graves, Jr. 1). ... A...

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He competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... He set many records in track, baseball, and football. Babe Horrel wanted to recruit Jackie from Pasadena Junior College. ... He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. ... Jackie decided to drop out of college and join the army. ...

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While at UCLA, Jackie Robinson became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track. In 1941, he was named to the All-American football team. Robinson was unable to complete his college education due to financial problems, so he then went on and enlisted into the U.S. ...

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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919. He was born on a farm in Georgia. People called him Jackie. His father left his family when he was 1 years old. His mother worked hard to support the family and she was the most important person in his life. After Jackie graduated from...

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Jackie Robinson (1919-72) Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia., on January 31, 1919 to Jerry and Mallie Robinson. He grew up in Pasadena, California. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He left scho...

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Not long after the family moved to Pasadena, California Robinson's mother enrolled him into Pasadena Junior College. At Pasadena Junior College Robinson set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- (Ringer 22). After only one year at Pasadena Junior College Robinson received an athletic scholarship to UCLA (23). ... Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). After three years of college Robinson left college to work to support his mother (29). ...

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Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at Pasadena's John Muir Technical High: football, basketball, baseball and track. He went on to Pasadena Junior College, where he set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- before accepting an athletic scholarship to UCLA. ...

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Jackie Robinson was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson on January 31, 1919. He was the youngest of five children. His father, Jerry abandoned the family and ran off to Florida. Jackie's mother Mallie was left to raise her five children alone. In the Spring of 1920 a year after Jerry left, Mallie moved ...

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While attending there he won letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... Even today the Jackie Robinson Foundation continues to fight for human dignity and brotherhood by supporting college-bound minorities and poor people seeking to develop their potential. ...

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Racial Integration American history cannot be studied without focusing on the civil rights movement in the 1900's. Furthermore, we cannot discuss the civil rights movement without covering the integration of African Americans in baseball. When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier it resemble...

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As stated in the Dictionary of Sports Quotations, by one of Sports Illustrated's writers in 1968, "Sports has increased the opportunity of the Negro, and other minorities, to go to college" (9). These disadvantaged children, look at the status of these icons, and think to themselves that by playing basketball or football, etc., they could also be there in years to come. ...

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