Career
He served as the head football coach at the University at Buffalo from 1992 to 1994, compiling a record of 8–24. Before coaching at Buffalo, Ward was a football coach at Northwestern High School and Howard University. He resigned from that position in 2000, after he pleaded guilty to accepting unemployment benefits while he was employed by the Buffalo Public Schools system.
Ward died in 2001 from a heart attack, while attending church services at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Buffalo, New New York