over, he reported for basketball. For the duration of the spring, Jackie competed in baseball and track and field simultaneously (Mann 47). He graduated from Junior College in 1939 and entered the University of California at Los Angeles in September, needing only two years of college for completion and a degree. The athletic director at UCLA, Wilbur Johns, articulated, " He was always in perfect condition – he never drank or smoked – and he always placed the welfare of his team above his chance for greater stardom" (Mann 59). Jackie was more than just an outstanding athlete, but by far the "greatest athlete in the history of sports at UCLA." To this day, he is the only winner of four varsity letters in the four sports that the college had to offer (Mann 77). By 1941, Robinson left UCLA to take a paying job at the National Youth Administration. Because the NYA was composed of young males of all colors, Jackie saw it as "an ideal instrument for the correction of the very factors that had so deeply influenced his
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