Word: levying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Schrade F. Radtke, president of a national chemistry fraternity at MIT, who surrendered his chapter's charter because membership was limited to "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race," Frederic D. Green II, president of an Amherst fraternity which lost its chapter for electing a Negro to membership; and Levi Jackson, first Negro football captain at Yale...
Twice during the two years he starred at center for the Crimson Lewis captained Harvard elevens. He led the football varsity for a portion of a game against Pennsylvania in 1892 and then again served as captain against Princeton the following year. Lewis thus precedes Levi Jackson of Yale as the Ivy League's first colored football captain by 57 years. In 1912 Walter Camp placed Lewis on his all time All-American team...
Ernie Stautner of Boston College won a tackle position on the second team, while Yale's Levi Jackson was voted a backfield berth on the third team. None of the three are seniors...
...anything Yale had done on the field all fall. Undergraduates cheered and telegrams poured in. Newspaper editorials applauding Yale's gesture as something which fell only a little short of the Emancipation Proclamation. Actually it was more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...