William Ward (American football)
Ward, c. 1896
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 25, 1874 Rochester, New York |
| Died | May 13, 1936 (aged 61) Rochester, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1893–1894 | Princeton |
| Position(s) | Halfback, quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1895 | Princeton (assistant) |
| 1896 | Michigan |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 9–1 |
William Douglas Ward (August 25, 1874 – May 13, 1936) was an American football player and coach, physician and surgeon. He played college football at Princeton University from 1893 to 1894 and was the coach of the University of Michigan football team in 1896. He later became a physician and surgeon in Rochester, New York. He was a pioneer in early surgical procedures to construct artificial vaginas and published an article on the subject in 1915.
Ward was born in Rochester, New York in August 1874. His grandfather, Levi Ward, was the mayor of Rochester. His father, Frank Addison Ward, was a Rochester native, a Princeton alumnus, and the chief executive of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, a company that supplied natural history specimens to colleges, museums and collectors in the United States and Europe. Ward's mother, Mary Hawley Douglas, was also a native of New York. He had seven younger siblings born between 1879 and 1894. Ward attended preparatory school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Ward enrolled at Princeton University where he played football and baseball. He played at the left halfback position for the Princeton Tigers football team in 1893 and at quarterback in 1894. He scored the only touchdown in Princeton's 6–0 victory over Yale on Thanksgiving Day 1893. In December 1894, The New York Times wrote:
Ward received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton in 1895, and was one of only seven students in Princeton's Class of 1895 to graduate magna cum laude. He was voted the "Best All-Round Man in the Class, the "Best All-Round Athlete," the "Most Awkward Man," and the "Latin Salutatorian."
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