Gerald Ford was a standout high school football player, which led to him being heavily recruited by colleges. Ford ultimately decided to attend the University of Michigan, where he played long ...

Ward was one of Michigan's best players in 1934 but ... The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game'' -- was produced last year. Genna saw it and was ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that ...

By the 1940s, salaries had improved for players, as Edward ... in the middle of the Great Depression. Gerald Ford on the University of Michigan football team, 1933. In either case, Ford turned ...

Just two weeks into its 1934 season, the University of Michigan football team faced mounting ... That teammate was Gerald R. Ford. At Ford’s funeral services on Jan. 2, 2007, President George ...

And they've met here at the Gerald R ... supporting Ford's failed 1976 presidential campaign. Ward's not talking about politics now, though. He's talking about football, and a moment that sealed ...

Coming out of college, Ford had offers ... retired his No. 48 football jersey on Oct. 8, 1994. Never a team captain, Ford, a center, earned the team's most valuable player honors as a senior ...

Barry Rabe, a professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in Ann Arbor, sees a direct link between the young Ford — the football player who took a stand — and the aging former ...

BRAND: He was an A-student and an Eagle Scout. Gerald Ford was also an outstanding football player, who went on to earn a law degree at Yale. He served in the Navy during World War II. And in 1948 ...

He was a talented American football player (right), who turned down offers to play for the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. He was christened Gerald Rudolf Ford but signed himself Jerry ...