Education
He graduated from Evansville North High School in 1968 and led North High School to the 1967 Indiana high school basketball championship.
He graduated from Evansville North High School in 1968 and led North High School to the 1967 Indiana high school basketball championship.
He played on the 1968 Indiana High School All-Star basketball team against the Kentucky All-Stars. He played college basketball at Purdue University where he totaled 1,244 points and 648 rebounds, he was the team Most Valuable Player during his junior season (1970-1971) leading the Boilermakers to the National Institute of Technology. He played briefly for the Memphis Tams of the American Bar Association in the 1972-1973 season, averaging 1.6 points and 1.3 rebounds in nine games played. A mid-season trade with the Indiana Pacers failed to materialize and Ford was released.
In spent the 1974-1975 basketball season with the Lafayette Lasers of the short lived International Business Alliance. Currently, Bob Ford is a full-time telecaster for Purdue Boilermaker men"s basketball games.
During his collegiate career, he was a 2x member of United States of America Basketball (National) teams, the Silver Medal-winning 1970 World University Games squad and the 1971 Pan-Am Games team