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It’s Presidents’ Day, so what better way to pay tribute to all the men who have been president of the United States and played football.
Donald Trump (New York Military Academy): Trump is a three-sport athlete at the New York Military Academy and played on the football team for a year. His classmates had this to say about President Trump.
“He’s just the best, a smart athlete, a wonderful athlete,” former classmate Ted Levine told Business Insider.
“He probably just played professional baseball as a pitcher. I think he was throwing at 80 miles an hour. I’m the receiver. He made my hand turn black and blue every day. “
“Could I play football?You can do whatever you want. He’s physically and mentally talented. “
John F. Kennedy (Harvard): Kennedy wasn’t the only member of his family circle to play football at Harvard, as did Robert and Edward Kennedy. Unlike his brothers, John never played. In fact, JFK never made it. beyond the JV due to illness and injury. All his glory on the field came here on the field with his family. John Kennedy played football at Harvard, but unlike his brothers, who excelled at the game (Robert and Edward were Harvard academic football players), JFK did not advance beyond the JV team due to illness and injury in his freshman year. Despite his physical problems, JFK remained as active as possible in the game, participating in tactile football games with his circle of family and friends. which may have led him to create one of his most outstanding quotes: “We don’t need our young people to become a generation of spectators. Rather, we need each of them to participate in a vigorous life.
Richard Nixon (Whittier College): Like Kennedy, Nixon never played at Whittier College in California, but at least he was on the team. He simply served as a backup tackle. Now, think about that for a moment. I know Whittier is rarely exactly an SEC school, yet Richard Nixon, who was 5-foot-11 and weighed 175 pounds, played tackle. Most kickers are bigger than that in those days.
3. Ronald Reagan (Eureka College): Reagan played at small Eureka College in Illinois, but he wasn’t exactly a revelation on the field.
He’s a lineman at Eureka College in Illinois, but his best-known football connection is for playing the wonderful George Gipp of Notre Dame football in the 1940 film Knute Rockne. Reagan, an all-American, gave him the nickname “Gipper” and used the real George. word “win one for Gipper” while running for president. He is George Gipp in Knute Rockne All American. Without him, how would we have won one for Gipper?
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Army): Before embarking on his military career and then as president, Ike was a running back and linebacker in the Army, starting on both sides of the ball. He also faced Jim Thorpe once, which is a greater football feat than any of the three most sensible presidents on this list can even dream of. Dwight Eisenhower was quoted as saying, “Not being on the West Point baseball team has been one of the greatest sadnesses of my life, perhaps the greatest sadness “But that sadness led him to sign up for the West Point football team, where he started in school as a running back and linebacker and faced standout Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians.