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.

President Ford was a football player at the university. ... — The Michigan football team continued its tour of Michigan on Friday with a pit stop at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

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 at center ...

It's like a treasure hunt, really. And here, they've struck gold. You can see it in their faces and hear it in their voices, even before the well-dressed man on the TV screen has finished speaking.

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 ...

The Presidential election in 1976 marked the only time since 1948 when, contrary to the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, Michigan went red, and Ohio went blue. And while Gerald Ford’s political victory in ...

While black players would compete on football practice squads and in other varsity sports during Yost's tenure, it was only the explosive Ward -- so explosive that he once beat Jesse Owens of Ohio ...

A starting center for Michigan in the early 1930s, he turned down a chance to play professional football. Later, during his political life, he remained an avid tennis player and swimmer.

It was Ford who coined the phrase "football center of the world" at his news conference. According to news reports, he was greeted with "enthusiastic applause" at each of his stops in Canton.

Though Ford would decide to remain with the team and play that day against Georgia Tech, the story surrounding Willis Ward, Michigan and Georgia Tech became yet another etched within our history ...