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After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away...
...also plugged cowboy stuff to the hilt. As one said: "Cowboy things used to be considered just toys. But we've been smart enough to take them out of the toy class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list: a Roy Rogers...
...afternoon of tap day last week, there was a stir of special excitement at Yale. Would Halfback Levi Jackson, the first Negro ever to be elected captain of a Yale football team (TIME, Dec. 6), also be the first of his race to be tapped for a senior society...
...well-informed upperclassmen, Jackson's choice was no surprise. It had been rumored for several days that he would "go" Berzelius,* along with his teammates Fullback Ford Nadherny and Ends Lawrence McQuade and John Setear. Levi himself said only, "I had to make one choice; I just chose Berzelius...
...Married. Levi Jackson, 22, Yale's star halfback and first Negro sport captain, and Virginia Lucille Moore, 22, his high-school sweetheart; in New Haven, Conn...