Sport: Election Returns

Yale's footballers, having wound up a discouraging season (won 4, lost 5), gathered last week for one last huddle. It didn't take them long. In ten minutes, the boys elected popular Levi Jackson, their Negro halfback, captain of the 1949 team.

On & off the campus, it created more stir than 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."

Last week Harvard elected a new student football manager: Frank Jones, a 20-year-old Negro from Greensboro, N.C. He succeeded Dwight K. Nishimura, a Japanese-American.

Michigan, too, made news in choosing its 1949 football captain. He is ex-G.I. Alvin Wistert, a tackle who is 33.