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After Muir, Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College ( PJC ), where he continued his athletic career by participating in basketball, football, baseball, and track.

On the football team, he played quarterback and safety.

He was a shortstop and leadoff hitter for the baseball team, and he broke school broad jump records held by his brother Mack.

As at Muir High School, most of Jackie's teammates were white.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

Also while at PJC, he was elected to the Lancers, a student-run police organization responsible for patrolling various school activities.

In 1938, he was elected to the All-Southland Junior College Team for baseball and selected as the region's Most Valuable Player.

That year, Robinson was one of ten students named to the school's Order of the Mast and Dagger ( Omicron Mu Delta ), awarded to students performing " outstanding service to the school and whose scholastic and citizenship record is worthy of recognition.