Presidents' Day: How US leaders fared in the sporting arena
noted that President Lincoln was an amateur wrestler in the 1830s."Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Vol. 1" detailed Lincoln wrestling and beating Jack Armstrong, who was a champion from a nearby town.File - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, is seen in this undated file photo.
President Roosevelt attended Harvard and served as a cheerleader on the squad to help support the football team. He is among several presidents who served as cheerleaders during their time in college.President Eisenhower was a star running back at West Point in 1912 but he injured his knee in a game and never took the football field again.
President Ford was a standout center, linebacker and long snapper at the University of Michigan in the 1930s. The Wolverines were national champions during the 1932 and 1933 seasons. He won the Meyer Morton Award in 1932. The award was given to the Michigan player who showed the best development and promise at the spring practice from 1925 to 1949.President Ronald Reagan
President Bush was the team captain of the Yale University baseball team. He was on the team as a first baseman and helped the team make the first two College World Series in 1947 and 1948. US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama plays basketball at Riverview High School in Elkhart, Indiana, on May 04, 2008.
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