Jones Gets Civil Rights Prize

An award "for important contributions to civil rights" was made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with a virus infection but acknowledged the award by telegram.

Freedom House, a branch of the Willkie Foundation, informed Jones in a letter early last week that it would honor him. The letter said that "the democratic attitude of your athletic department (Jones is the first Negro to have been elected a football manager at Harvard) has earned the gratitude of us all."

"Done Nothing"

Jones claimed yesterday that he "had done nothing at all. The credit goes to Judkins (John B. Judkins '47, football manager in 1947), Nish (Dwight K. Nishimura '49, football manager in 1948), the coaches and the entire managerial system."

Several other New England college men received recognition from Freedom House. They were: 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.