JESS WILLARD REED Jess Willard Reed passed away September 27, 2009, at Enloe Hospital in Chico, at the age of 87. He was born February 5, 1922 in Gordon, Nebraska to Edward and Daisy Reed. The family ...

JESS WILLARD ALEXANDER Known to family and friends as “J.W.”, “J”, and “Papa”, was born in Hockley, TX, February 23, 1916. He was the second of 7 children, born to Annie Ruth and Oscar Alexander Sr.

L. A. Firpo (“Argentine Ape”) knocked out Jess Willard (” Huge Anachronism of the Ring”) in eight rounds in Jersey City. Firpo received $110,000 as his share of the “gate”; Willard received $185,000.

TOLEDO, Ohio — July 4, 1919: It came to be known as "Toledo's Day in the Sun," the historic Jack Dempsey/Jess Willard fight in Bayview Park on Summit Street. An estimated 50,000 people crammed into ...

The crowd goes wild. The band breaks into a jubilant, drum-thumping march. The loser, a shave-headed Negro, is led from the ring, while speaking ruefully with a reporter. The winner, a white man, is ...

FOYT, Willard Jess Willard Jess Foyt, “Bill”, 96, passed away peacefully on Sunday, (October 9, 2011) at the Johnson Memorial Medical Center. Bill was preceded in death by his beloved wife of more ...