Education
He attended the University of Houston, where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Computer Science.
He attended the University of Houston, where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Computer Science.
He now runs a program which prepares young Bahamian students to play college basketball and American football in the United States. He was a four-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics. He followed that with winning a silver medal at the 1992 World Cup in Havana, Cuba.
His personal best was 17.41 metres, a Bahamian record that has later been beaten by Leevan Sands.
He is considered the Father of Track and Field in the Bahamas. He started the Frank Rutherford Foundation, a Houston, Texas-based programme to assist young Bahamian sportspeople in gaining academic qualifications through college.much like Rutherford.
Two former students of the program are Devard and Devaughn Darling, cousins of Rutherford who both received football scholarships from Florida State University. Others include Jeremy Barr, a power forward who attends the University of Nebraska on a basketball scholarship, and Ian Symmonette, a left tackle who attends the University of Miami on football scholarship.
More than 60 Bahamian young people have been helped by Rutherford and his foundation and all of them have graduated from college.
In May 2003, Rutherford was appointed a Member in the Order of the British Empire for excellence in athletics. He is the cousin of fellow Bahamian track athlete Dennis Darling (husband to Tonique Williams-Darling).