Gerald Ford on the football field at the University of Michigan. A varsity football player, Ford played in two All-Star games and, after graduation, rejected two NFL contract offers.

A wreath-laying ceremony Monday morning marked what would have been President Gerald R. Ford’s 112th birthday, with family, former protectors and the public gathering in Grand Rapids to remember the ...

Sports Harbaugh, Wolverines visit Gerald R. Ford Museum President Ford was a football player at the university.

AP File Photo An undated file photo provided by the University of Michigan shows Gerald Ford as a football player at the university in Ann Arbor, Mich. Filmmakers Brian Kruger and Buddy Moorehouse ...

Gerald R. Ford, who struggled to heal the nation’s Watergate wounds in a short and turbulent tenure as president, died Tuesday. He was 93. The death was announced by his wife, Betty. No cause… ...

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., 93, who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in U.S. history and sought to restore the nation's confidence ...

But over the years as Ford shifted from athletic prodigy to rising political star, his relationship with football changed. He wasn’t just a former player, or a fan, but someone who understood the ...

Gerald and Betty Ford tied the knot in 1948 and went on to have four children, with their first being born in 1950. Here's what each is doing now.

In the pantheon of Michigan Wolverine football greats—and it is a very, very large pantheon—perhaps no former player is more venerated than Gerald Ford, a three-time letterwinner ...

But according to Brian Kruger and Buddy Moorehouse, producers of "Black and Blue: The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech game," a new documentary which tells the ...

Comedians made fun of Ford as a former football player who sometimes got his words jumbled up. But he in fact got into Yale Law School without family connections and graduated in the top third of ...