Career
He created the MLB All-Star Game, the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament and the College All-Star Game. Ward was twice offered the job as commissioner of the National Football League. He later feuded with the owners of the league and started the AAFC. Ward was considered a dynamo with powerful contacts in American politics, church matters and journalism.
In 1990, Thomas B. Littlewood wrote a biography of Architecture titled "Architecture: A Promoter Not a PoetThe Story of Architecture Ward" (Iowa State University Press Ames, Iowa 1990).
