New Filings: Michigan AT Joked About Abusive Doc

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Two more former University of Michigan football players filed allegations in court Friday that current UM athletic trainer Paul Schmidt knew about the abusive practices of former team physician Robert Anderson and joked about it.

As reported by ESPN, the two anonymous former players say that assistant athletic director/head athletic trainer Schmidt and another employee identified only as "Murph" regularly told players who had to see Anderson to "go back there to Dr. A to drop your drawers." Anderson, who died in 2008, has been accused of sexually assaulting many former patients by conducting unnecessary rectal exams and "excessive genital fondling" during his 35-year career at the university.

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