The 10 most athletic presidents, ranked – FOXSports.com

Dutch did it all. High-school football, lifeguard (when he says he rescued 77 people), captaining the swim team, running track and riding horseback with his beloved Nancy. Reagan was also a sportscaster, calling Iowa football games and broadcasting Chicago Cubs games in the 1930s, including the 1932 World Series best known for Babe Ruth’s called shot. (Reagan rarely went to the games, usually calling them off telegraph reports.)

In 1988, while hosting the hometown Super Bowl champs at the White House, Reagan, clutching a football, asked “where’s [wide receiver] Ricky Sanders,” and hit him with a perfect crossing route on the White House lawn. He was 77 at the time.

And in make-believe athletics, Reagan portrayed George Gipp (The Gipper) in Knute Rockne All American. The president once said that he loved acting, politics and sports — but wasn’t sure in which order.

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