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UCLA Silver Lifetime Pass, ca. 1940
Courtesy of the Robinson Family Collection
Jackie established himself as a star athlete at Muir Technical
High School, where he excelled as a shortstop on the baseball
team, won awards for both broad and high jumps, played
both receiver and quarterback for the football team and was
considered the finest all-around basketball player in the school.
His legend was confirmed in September of 1936 when he won
the junior boys tennis singles championship in the Pacific
Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, a sport he played sporadically.
It would be this reputation that would allow him to enroll Jackie Robinson participating in a long jump
early in January of 1937 at Pasadena Junior College to play competition for UCLA, ca. 1940.
baseball and later to be a four-letterman at UCLA. Courtesy of Maurice Terrell, Look Magazine
Collection, Library of Congress
Jack Roosevelt Robinson: Athlete 7
