On This Day in History, January 27: Jackie Robinson’s Original Debut
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on Jan. 31, 1919. He attended Pasadena Junior College in California and the University of California at Los Angeles.
As an undergraduate, Robinson excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track. He was the first athlete in UCLA history to letter in four sports in one year. He left college in 1941 in his junior year joined the U.S. Army.