 So it 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 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.