# Garrett Ford Jr.

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{{Short description|American football player (born 1970)}}
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'''Garrett Ford Jr.''' (born July 6, 1970, in [Morgantown, West Virginia](/source/Morgantown%2C_West_Virginia)) was an [American football](/source/American_football) [running back](/source/running_back) for the [West Virginia Mountaineers](/source/West_Virginia_Mountaineers).  His father, [Garrett Ford Sr.](/source/Garrett_Ford_Sr.), was the first African American assistant coach in school history,<ref>Bowden, Terry.  [https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=tb-fathers061408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Thanks, Dad]</ref> is a member of the West Virginia Hall of Fame and played for the [Denver Broncos](/source/Denver_Broncos) for two seasons.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sportsintegration.wvu.edu/football/ford.htm |title=Garrett Galaxy Ford |access-date=2009-01-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405235352/http://sportsintegration.wvu.edu/football/ford.htm |archive-date=2014-04-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Collegiate career==

Ford came to [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia_University) in 1989, and made an immediate impact.  He became the first tailback at his school to rush for 100 or more yards in his debut.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DD153FF930A3575AC0A96F948260&sec=&spon=|title=COLLEGE FOOTBALL; West Virginia Rolls, 35-10 |date=1989-09-03|publisher=Associated Press via the New York Times}}</ref> He shared starting time with [Eugene Napoleon](/source/Eugene_Napoleon) on a Mountaineers squad that had just come from a [Fiesta Bowl](/source/Fiesta_Bowl) loss to [Notre Dame](/source/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish) the previous year in the National Championship game. Ford rushed for 733 yards and 6 touchdowns that season, the only season he started. His totals were second on the team, behind All-American quarterback [Major Harris](/source/Major_Harris_(American_football)).

Ford's next three seasons as a Mountaineer had Ford at a backup role to Michael Beasley in 1990 and [Adrian Murrell](/source/Adrian_Murrell) in 1991 and 1992. Ford rushed for a total of 821 yards and 6 touchdowns in those three seasons as backup, including 335 yard seasons in '90 and '91.

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Category:1970 births
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Category:Sportspeople from Morgantown, West Virginia
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