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Gerald Ford, Willis Ward, & the Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game of 1934

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Gerald Ford, Willis Ward, & the Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game of 1934

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Gerald Ford and Willis Ward, two of the best high school football players in Michigan, became fast friends at the University of Michigan in the early 1930s. However, their friendship was put to the test when the athletic director, Fielding Yost, refused to allow Willis Ward to play on the football team due to his African American heritage. Despite the controversy, Gerald Ford stood by his friend and the two went on to have a profound impact on each other's lives, with Gerald Ford becoming a leading advocate for civil rights and Willis Ward becoming a prominent businessman and judge.

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To search for the Our American Stories podcast, go to the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Gerald Ford is often overlooked as a president. He was the 38th. However, Gerald Ford made an incredible impact on civil rights during his time in Congress and as president and all because of his friendship with a man named Willis Ward. Buddy Morehouse tells the story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward and a football game which forever changed both men's lives. Gerald Ford and Willis Ward in the early 1930s were two of the best high school football players in the state of Michigan. Gerald Ford was going to Grand Rapids South High School and Willis Ward was attending Detroit Northwestern High School.

So they were on opposite sides of the state. They were two of the best high school football players in the state. So in the fall of 1931, they both came to the University of Michigan. They met actually on their very first day of freshman orientation. It was held in Waterman's gymnasium on the Michigan campus and they met that first day and they had known of each other by reputation because they had, you know, read the newspaper clippings and knew how good the other guy was. So immediately they introduced themselves to each other and really became great friends from that very first day at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1931. They realized they had a lot in common beyond just football.

They both had an interest in the law. They kind of had similar career goals. So they just, they became fast friends in college and decided that they were going to room together when they went on road trips. They had formed this friendship that was outside of football and then it just kind of got strengthened on the football field. And then every time they went, the Michigan football team would go on a road trip, the two of them would room together.

And then they basically remained great friends, obviously throughout college and then through the rest of their lives as well. The athletic director at the time was a guy named Fielding Yost, who had been Michigan's football coach for 25 years, starting in the early 1900s. And he became really one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, certainly one of the most influential coaches of all time.

But in 1925, he stepped down from being a coach and he became the athletic director. And then he burned through a couple of coaches after that. And he eventually hired a guy named Harry Kipke to be his head coach. And Harry Kipke had been an All-American football player for him. He was one of the greatest athletes that Michigan ever had.

And when Harry Kipke became the coach, he wanted to kind of beef up the roster, beef up recruiting. And everybody at that time knew about Willis Ward. He was this phenomenal athlete, not just in football, but especially in track in Detroit.

He was one of the fastest people in the country. He knew he was an incredible athlete and he really wanted him to come to Michigan, not just to run track, but also to play football. The problem with that is that Fielding Yost was dead set against having any African-American football player on the football team. He didn't mind if there were African Americans on other teams.

There were some that played on the baseball team. But the football team was kind of his baby. And Fielding Yost was a fairly unrelenting racist. He'd grown up in West Virginia.

He was the son of a Confederate soldier. And he was really dead set on keeping his football team all white. So when Harry Kipke came to him and said that he wanted to recruit Willis Ward to play on his team, it caused a huge rift between the two of them. Yost was against it.

Kipke really wanted it. There were even some rumors that the two of them actually came to blows when they were discussing whether or not Willis Ward would be allowed to join the team. But eventually Kipke won out and Yost was, Yost backed down and Willis Ward was able to join the team.

And then Willis Ward, when he joined the team, he became the first African American football player in about 40 years to play at the University of Michigan. The way things work back in college football back then, the schedules were not set many years in advance. They were really only set like a year or so in advance, only today. Right now, Michigan knows five years from now who they're going to be playing. But back in those days, they set the schedule like the year before. And Michigan had always only ever played teams from the north.

Teams from either the Midwest or maybe the east, they'd never played a team from the south. For whatever reason, Fielding Yost wanted to get a southern team on the schedule. His brother-in-law was a guy named Dan McGoughan who had worked in, he'd been an athlete at Michigan and then he was working at Vanderbilt in Tennessee at the time. And Dan McGoughan was really good friends with the people at Georgia Tech. So Yost worked through Dan McGoughan to contact the people at Georgia Tech in 1933. He started contacting them to see if they would be interested in coming up to Ann Arbor to play a game in 1934.

So Yost and the people at Georgia Tech started trading telegrams back then, saying, would you be interested in coming up to play a football game that season? Now, Yost knew very well that the policy, the Jim Crow policy among the southern states at that time, was that they would refuse to play against any team that had an African-American player. So when he scheduled the Georgia Tech game, he knew for a fact that Georgia Tech was going to refuse to play the game if Willis Ward played. So he knew it was going to be a problem. But he still went ahead and scheduled the game. So in 1933, he scheduled this game. And once everybody started to get the news that this was coming out, they quickly started to realize that, you know, oh, boy, we're going to have a problem here because they're not going to play the game if we have Willis Ward on our team. And it didn't really become an issue until 1934 when the schedule was officially announced. And then everybody started asking Yost, what are you going to do? Are you going to bench Willis Ward for this game?

Are you going to play it or what are you going to do? And you've been listening to Buddy Morehouse, who happens to teach at Hillsdale College. And he was also a documentarian who made a documentary on this very story. And by the way, this goes to show that racism was not a southern phenomenon, but a national one and a national plague. An athletic director at a top Big Ten school, and it probably wasn't the Big Ten then, was vehemently against having an African American athlete and a terrific one play on his team for no other reason than he was black.

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By the way, when two guys decide to room on the road, this is more than a friendship. We rejoin events as word spreads of the approaching Michigan Georgia Tech football game and the crisis or impending crisis of Will Willis Ward and Bench. Buddy Morehouse continues the story. The way it worked back in college football then is that freshmen weren't allowed to play in the varsity. So Willis Ward and Gerald Ford couldn't play at all when they were freshmen.

They were just on the practice squad. When they were sophomores, they were able to play. And because Willis Ward was pretty much the, he was definitely the fastest player on the team and one of the best players on the team.

He moved into the starting lineup right away. He was one of the best players starting when he was a sophomore. And Michigan won the national championship, both his sophomore and junior years.

So Willis Ward is one of the best players on the best team in the country. Gerald Ford was backing, he played center and linebacker, and he was backing up a guy named Chuck Bernard, who was an All-American center. So Gerald Ford didn't play much at all when he was a sophomore and junior.

But when he was a senior, Chuck Bernard was graduating. So for the first time, both of these guys, these best friends, Gerald Ford and Willis Ward, were both going to be moving into the starting lineup. And they were so excited heading into that season, going into the 1934 season, because they were both going to be starters for the first time. They were coming off two national championships and the excitement was just sky high. But all that kind of came crashing down in starting in the late summer and then the early fall of 1934, when this Georgia Tech situation came up and everybody started asking them, you know, started asking Fielding Yost and Harry Kipke, you know, what are you going to do about this game?

You know, Georgia Tech is not going to play the game if Willis Ward plays in the game, what are you going to do about it? And it caused this incredibly contentious situation once word got out, both on the team and in the Michigan community and then really nationally. And it became a firestorm in the Michigan campus. College football back then didn't start in late August or early September like it does now. The games didn't start until early October. That was when the first game of the season was. The Georgia Tech game was going to be the third game of the season and it wasn't until October 20th that the game was played.

So this really started to explode in late September and early October of 1934. And when word got out, when Georgia Tech said, no, we're not going to play the game if Willis Ward plays, Fielding Yost wouldn't say anything publicly. He would not come out and say it publicly.

He was definitely speaking in the meetings that they had, but he wouldn't say anything, wouldn't make any press announcements, wouldn't answer any of their questions about it. Leading up to the game, as I said, it was creating this firestorm on the campus and there were really two sides that were forming. On the one side, you had most all of the faculty and almost all the students at Michigan who were saying, there's no way that we should play this game if Willis Ward's not allowed to play. Either he plays the game or we cancel it, but we should not play the game and bench Willis Ward.

That's just not an option. On the other side were some of the more blue bloods, some of the fraternity boys on Michigan's campus who were taking the approach that, you know what, these are our guests from the south. We need to be considerate of what their feelings are and we need to give in and bench Willis Ward because that's what they want us to do and they're our guests. So it created created a huge rift on the Michigan campus.

The night before the game there was this huge rally that had about 1,500 or 2,000 people attending it where it was everybody came to the microphone and they were giving angry speeches on both sides of it. There were also hundreds of telegrams that were received by the Michigan Athletic Office, most all of them saying that it's a disgrace that a school like Michigan would even be thinking of benching Willis Ward in a situation like this and you know demanding that they they cancel the game if they're insisting that Willis Ward be benched. Really the people in the middle of this were not only Willis Ward but also Gerald Ford. He was for the first time in his life, as I said, a starter on the Michigan football team, but he was watching what was happening to his best friend. So Gerald Ford felt so strongly about it that he actually wrote to his father and then got the word to Harry Kipke that he wanted to quit the team. If they were going to do this to his friend Willis Ward he didn't want to have any part of that so he told his father that he was going to quit the team and if you think about it that's an extraordinary thing for a 20 year old college kid to be doing. This is this he was living his dream of being a Michigan football player and on the eve of the the only season where he was going to be a starter his senior year he was willing to quit the team as a show of support for his best friend Willis Ward. That's how strongly he felt about it and that's a a test of character that a lot of people don't know about Gerald Ford that really stayed with him for for the rest of his life. But after he said that and and he told Willis Ward what he wanted to do Willis Ward went to Gerald Ford and he told him he said no I don't want you to quit the team I want you to play I want you to go out there to play and I want you to pound them.

So that's what Ford did he said if you want me to play I'll play if you want me to pound them I'll pound them. The weather was miserable it was October 20th the weather was it was cold and rainy um Michigan had started the season terribly and it was all because of the Willis Ward incident this was just ripping the team up inside they just came off two back-to-back national championships and then they started the 1934 season with two losses. So coming in the Georgia Tech game they'd already lost two games and the morale of the team was was destroyed but they were they had a special mission I think in their hearts for the Georgia Tech game that they needed to go out there and they needed to stand up for their friend Willis Ward. So the game was played in these terrible conditions but Michigan actually won the game nine to two. Georgia Tech's only points came out of safety um Michigan scored also scored a safety and they scored a touchdown in the game and Gerald Ford had probably the best game of his of his life that year he was absolutely devastating the players on the Georgia Tech team and the one play that really illustrates that is there was a player on the Georgia Tech team a sophomore named Charlie Preston who was from who was from Atlanta and there was there was trash talk throughout the entire game but Charlie Preston was just really really going over the top with it he was he kept talking about um Willis Ward in the game and using the worst racial slurs that you can imagine to to describe him and he was directing that at the Michigan players when Gerald Ford heard that he snapped and there was this one play where Gerald Ford and another player named Bill Borgman they went after Charlie Preston during that play and they put the most devastating block on him that ended up breaking some of Charlie Preston's ribs they had to haul him out of the game after that that's how hard they hit Charlie Preston and that got in the newspaper that you know he'd been knocked out of the game and on Monday morning after the game Gerald Ford and Bill Borgman they came to Willis Ward and they said that was for you that ended up being the only game that Michigan won that season record-wise it was the worst season in Michigan history and it was all because their morale had been totally destroyed because of the Willis Ward situation so this was not a team that was in historically in trouble they just came off to had come off two national championship seasons and then they end up having a one and seven season which is the worst season in Michigan football history.

Now what a story you're hearing about how racism drove the great University of Michigan championship team to a tragic and terrible season and all over one single claim that from an athletic director who deliberately did this there's almost no question he did just listening to the story why schedule a southern team but for this kind of conflict and showdown why else would a man do it and that's how deep the roots of racism can go in a human being but what a thing young Gerald Ford did he doesn't play if my pal doesn't play I quit and his pal says no go pound them and the one win they have in this tragic season well they pounded Georgia Tech and broke some ribs while they were at it on general principle when we come back more of this remarkable story a love story in the end between Gerald Ford and Willis Ward here on Our American Stories. 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their only win of the season but what happened to the relationship between gerald ford and willis ward let's pick up where we last left off that game had a profound impact on both of them um in in every respect what it did to willis ward at first was um he he was uh as i said as great as he was in football he was even better in track he was one of the best football players in the country he was one of the best track people in the entire world uh back then the the fastest man in the world was jesse owens who was from ohio state and he's the one who went on and won four gold medals in the in the 1936 olympics well willis ward and and jesse owens were in college at the same time and willis ward raced against jesse owens five times and he actually beat jesse owens twice there are people that don't think jesse owens ever lost a race in college or ever lost a race during that time well one of the only people who ever beat him was willis ward so you have a willis ward who is is just as fast as jesse owens the fastest man in the world and going into the 1936 olympics everybody was thinking the united states is going to have the greatest track team of all time we've got jesse owens on our team we got willis ward on our team we're gonna just do nothing but but win gold medals um but the the olympics that year of course were held in berlin um adolph hitler's berlin and there uh was a lot of speculation as to what hitler might do uh in terms of discriminating against the athletes um who were not who were not white from other countries so willis ward had been so devastated by what happened to him in the georgia tech situation than what came to the olympics he just said you know what i don't want to put myself through possibly having the same thing happen to me has happened to me with the georgia tech game so he essentially retired from athletics um after the 1935 uh track season at michigan he never ran another race or played in another football game he decided instead that he was going to um go into the corporate world he was hired by henry ford to work at the ford motor company as kind of a liaison between the black and white workers henry ford loved willis ward he absolutely loved willis ward and he was trying to integrate his auto factories at the time and he knew he needed someone to kind of be the be the go-between so um when willis ward was in his early 20s he was probably one of the highest ranking african-american business executives in the country working for the ford motor company um gerald ford went on to law school at yale and then became an attorney in grand rapids and a few years after that decided to run for congress but throughout the entire time they the willis ward and gerald ford kept in touch with each other visited each other all the time saw each other all the time uh ford became a congressman willis ward eventually left ford motor company went to law school because he wanted to become an attorney specifically working on civil rights cases um and then in 1956 willis ward decided he was going to run for congress too and will and like gerald ford willis ward was also a republican so willis ward was going to run for congress in in a seat in detroit as a republican and gerald ford came to detroit and campaigned for his friend um after that so that was 20 years after their football days at michigan and the two of them are walking through detroit knocking on doors together uh to try to get willis ward elected um he did he ended up not winning that race not getting elected but just showed their friendship kind of kept going on after that when gerald ford became one of the leading people in the house of representatives he in 19 in the 1960s when the civil rights legislation was going through the congress uh ford was one of the main republican supporters of the civil rights legislation and he always told people that the thing that was strongest in his mind when he voted in favor of that was what had happened to willis ward and how unfair that was so when he voted in favor of the voting rights act and the civil rights act it was the willis ward um story and his friendship with willis ward was strongly in his mind and it continued when he moved into the white house when richard nixon resigned and then and then uh his ford of course had become vice president when spear wagner resigned and then he became president when nixon resigned um and that whole his whole friendship and everything with willis ward was still um was still one of the driving factors in his mind anytime it came to any any legislation or anything else that was going on related to race his his relationship with willis ward was still there um gerald ford was the president who signed black history month into law and willis ward would come to the white house and visit with uh jerry at that time there's some great photos from 1976 of the two of them in the oval office just having a private conversation it had been 40 years since their time in an arbor and they were you know together at the white house one and by that by that time willis ward was a judge in detroit so you have the judge in detroit and the president of the united states these two old michigan football teammates just having a great conversation in the oval office so that their their friendship continued through the rest of their lives and then even after willis ward passed away in 1983 it even continued after that willis ward passed away in 1983 uh gerald ford then became kind of a an elder statesman in the in the republican party and in one of the most remarkable things that happened is in 1999 um michigan the university of michigan's they had an affirmative actions policy that was in place and it had come under fire and was being legally challenged and it went all the way to the supreme court the president of michigan at that time was man named lee bollinger and he was desperately trying to keep some semblance of this program in place because he wanted to have a diverse student body and he knew this was a politically charged issue but he was desperately looking for someone he was looking for a republican who would be willing to say that it's important that we have this policy at the university of michigan and at other universities so gerald ford was actually the one who came forward in 1999 and he stepped forward and said i will i will help gerald ford wrote an op-ed in the new york times basically talking about the importance of fairness the importance of being able to have diversity and a university and he based his entire argument around the story of willis ward and that's interesting on several levels number one it's interesting because ford never talked about the willis ward story throughout very rarely he was on tv one time in the 90s on the larry king show where he was on there with his son steve and steve had kind of prompted him to tell the story it's the only time we can ever find of gerald ford telling the story on camera um but he it wasn't like he was exploiting it for political purposes or anything he never told the willis ward story to anyone but but he decided when the when his alma mater's admissions policy was under fire he decided that that was the right time to tell it so he he wrote an op-ed in the new york times where he basically told the story of willis ward and for a lot of the country it was the first time that they'd ever heard that story and it was a very very powerful op-ed and the supreme court voted soon after that to uphold part of michigan's policy and the swing vote on that was sandra day o'connor and there are a lot of observers who said that it was most likely gerald ford's op-ed op-ed that helped sway sandra day o'connor's mind on how to vote on that and a terrific job on the production by carter mcnish and a special thanks to buddy morehouse who teaches at hillsdale college where carter happens to be a student and who has also produced a documentary black and blue the story of gerald 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