5 Chapter 4 College Star

Chapter 4 College Star All through high school and college, Jackie kept on making headlines in every sport he played.

In 1939, not long after he started classes at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), tragedy struck. His beloved brother Frank died in a motorcycle accident. "It was hard to believe he was gone, hard to believe I would no longer have his support," Jackie later wrote. He threw himself into sports even more. It helped to take his mind off missing Frank.

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While playing basketball at UCLA, Jackie led the Pacific Coast Conference in scoring for two years in a row. One coach called him "the best basketball player in the United States." Jackie excelled in college football, too. "He is probably the greatest ball carrier on the gridiron today," wrote one sportswriter. He also won golf and tennis championships. One of Jackie's dreams was to compete, like Mack had, in the Summer Olympics. But in 1940 German forces were invading other countries in

Europe. World War II was raging. The Olympics were called off. There'd be no medal for Jackie Robinson.