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- Although Gerald Ford had a reputation for being clumsy, he was one of the most accomplished athletes ever to grace the Oval Office. He was a gridiron star who won college football national championships in 1932 and 1933 with the University of Michigan and was also an expert downhill skier.
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Dec 31, 2006 · Gerald Ford was an athlete in his youth, took care of himself all his life and was in great shape when he came to the White House. Yet, after he took a tumble or two on the ski slopes and then...
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After moving to Illinois as a young man, Abraham Lincoln developed an impressive reputation as an amateur wrestler, according to Carl Sandburg’sAbraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Vol. 1. In the early 1830s, a saloonkeeper bet the owner of a general store where Lincoln worked $10 that Lincoln couldn’t beat Jack Armstrong, the champion of a nearby t...
After a sickly childhood, Teddy Roosevelt determinedly built up his body with vigorous exercise. As a college student, according to a 1957 Harvard Crimson article, Roosevelt began entering boxing tournaments, where he made up in fierceness and ability to withstand punishment what he lacked in skill. Even after becoming president, Roosevelt engaged ...
As a prep school student, the physically-slight young FDRhad more success as a debater than as a second-string member of the football team and sometimes inflated his athletic resume with fictitious exploits as a boxer or distance runner. At Harvard, he rowed for one of the school’s crew clubs. But though he wasn’t a great competitive athlete, Roose...
Long before he achieved acclaim as the leader of the Allied forces who defeated Hitler, Dwight Eisenhower made a name for himself as a halfback and linebacker on the varsity football team at West Point. In November 1912, Eisenhower played ina gameagainst the Carlisle Indian School, whose star was one of the most renowned athletes of all time, Jim T...
JFK played left end and tackle on the football team at Choate Hall, his prep school, and swam on the varsity team at Harvard, according toSports Illustrated. Slim and square-shouldered, he might have been the president who looked the fittest, even though in reality he was plagued with health problems, including Addison’s disease and often severe ba...
At Whittier College in California, Richard Nixonwas a benchwarmer on the football team, an undersized lineman whose most outstanding attribute was that no matter how hard the starters hit him in practice, he picked himself up off the grass and lined up again for more punishment. “He was used as scrap iron, he often said,” Smith explains. “But he ha...
While Gerald Ford was mocked on Saturday Night Live for his supposed clumsiness, in reality, he was one of the best athletes ever to sit in the Oval Office, and one of the most physically-fit presidents as well. As the Baltimore Sun reported in this2006 profile of his athletic career, Ford played center and linebacker for a University of Michigan f...
Not many Americans may have thought of Jimmy Carter as an athlete. But, according to Watterson, Carter played on his high school tennis and basketball teams, competed in track and field as a pole vaulter, and played American Legion baseball. Later, he ran on the cross-country squad at the U.S. Naval Academy. As president, he continued to play tenni...
George H.W. Bush’s first love was baseball. After returning from service in World War II, Bush played first base for Yale University teams that twice made the College World Series. Though a mediocre hitter, Bush was the team’s best fielder, compiling a .992 fielding percentage in 1948, according toYalebulldogs.com. Smith, who worked for the 41st pr...
Like his father, George W. Bush played baseball at Yale but wasn’t as good at it. He made the freshman squad as a relief pitcher, but only got into three games, and stuck to intramural sports for the rest of his college career, as ESPN.com details. His best sport turned out to be running, which he took up in 1972 to get back in shape. Bush finished...
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- Gerald Ford. A clumsy Ford, as portrayed by Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live, has created an enduring image of a bumbling, old president. Ford was anything but that.
- Dwight Eisenhower. The West Point linebacker famously battled Jim Thorpe in the 1912 Army-Carlisle game, trying to knock the college great out of the game and bring victory to the Cadets.
- George H.W. Bush. (AP) Played first base for Yale in the 1940s and appeared in the first two College World Series. As vice president, Bush was temporarily in power when Reagan had surgery.
- Ronald Reagan. (AP) The legend is that a young Dutch saved 77 people during his seven years as a lifeguard. Whether these were actual rescues, times gotten wet or the number of occasions he told people not to swim 30 minutes after eating is unknown.
Although Gerald Ford had a reputation for being clumsy, he was one of the most accomplished athletes ever to grace the Oval Office. He was a gridiron star who won college football national...
Dec 28, 2006 · In Ford’s memoir, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford, he bitterly recounted how a brief stumble recorded by a television camera turned into a national story.
Feb 8, 2024 · It would not be difficult to make the case that Gerald Ford was the greatest athlete ever to serve as President of the United States. Captain of the University of Michigan Wolverines men’s football squad, he was also named its most valuable player in his senior year.
