Talk:Willis Ward

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* Lede. Expand a bit, probably should have at least two paragraphs for an article this size.  Cbl62 (talk) 01:01, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I could not trace back to the citation for this item, so I have deleted for now.  If I can track down the source, I will re-insert later. Cbl62 (talk) 06:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I searched high and low and could not find the answers to these questions.  After about 1976, references to him in newspaper articles just seem to stop.  Found no obituary and nothing on his family life.  Cbl62 (talk) 05:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Another user (Tony the Tiger) spoke to the Bentley Library, the owner of the images, and received permission for use.  As a result, the deletion of the images has been contested, and a decision is pending.  See discussion at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images#Image:WillisWard.JPG.  If the ruling is to delete, they will be deleted. Cbl62 (talk) 05:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GA review

message: I pulled this off the page, since I considered it pov and unsourced.
"" Yost denied that  he was ever a racist and just because a relative once fought for the Confederacy is not relevant to whether Yost was racist or not. The fact is that as Athletic Director at UM he did not prohibit Ward from joining the team and prior to that , in fact, several Blacks throughout Yost's UM career  were members of the UM football team while Yost was head coach. Yost was not a racist . At Michigan he  threatened a Chicago hotel owner who had refused to allow a UM Black player to stay at the hotel with the rest of the (white) Michigan  team  with both bad publicity and an immediate withdrawal  of ALL UM players from the establishment unless the owner agreed to let the Black UM Player stay with his white teammates there. The Hotel owner  backed down and relented. Especially given America's segregated times, this actually speaks very highly of the great Fielding H Yost and it is  a definite  event that  clearly indicates that Fielding Yost was not "racist". ""
Ungali (talk) 06:31, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: pov+unsourced

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message: We've got this statement: "some accounts indicate that he 'quit the team' or threatened to quit ...". This is sourced to a dead link Michigan Daily story, so I can't check the source, but it's too weasely for me. I found a few sources that state Ford's threat as fact, and none that dispute it. Unless we can find a source that disputes this happened, I'm going to remove "some accounts indicate". Kendall-K1 (talk) 23:43, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel words in 1934 game section