Len Ford

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Len Ford
Date of birth	February 18, 1926
Place of birth	Washington, D.C.
Date of death	March 14, 1972
Position(s)	Defensive End
College	Michigan
Pro Bowls	1951, 1952, 1953, 1954
Statistics	Pro Football Reference DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1948-1949 1950-1957 1958	Los Angeles Dons Cleveland Browns Green Bay Packers
Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1976

Leonard Guy Ford, Jr. (born February 18, 1926 in Washington, D.C., died March 14, 1972) was an American football defensive end elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976.

He played two years for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference. When the AAFC disbanded in 1949, only three teams from the league - the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts - were merged into the NFL. Ford was selected by the Browns out of a special draft pool created for teamless former AAFC players. In Cleveland, he became a ferocious defensive player for a very strong Browns team that dominated the NFL during the 1950s, playing in five championship games and winning three.

Ford played for the Browns through 1957 and then spent one years with the Green Bay Packers before retiring.

He played college football for one year at Morgan State University before transferring to the University of Michigan.