Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...

"He's the only football player I ever saw who can do a complete ... "It's a single wing with the right half, Jackie Robinson (the fastest back on the coast), stationed just outside right end.

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and ... they might not know that he was a pretty phenomenal football player too. In fact, football might have been his best sport as a college athlete.

Jim Becker, AP Reporter Who Covered Jackie Robinson and an Underdog Hawaii Football Team ... He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major League baseball team when editors sent ...