Schembechler's Son: I Told Bo of Michigan Doctor Abuse

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Matt Schembechler, son of legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, says his father knew of team physician Robert Anderson's now-notorious abuse. How? Matt claims he, himself, was abused by Anderson while receiving a sports physical at age 10.

The elder Schembechler was in his first year of a Michigan head coaching career that spanned from 1969 to 1989 when Matt told his adoptive father that Anderson had fondled him and conducted "an anal probe" as part of a pee-wee football physical. Upon hearing his son's claim, Schembechler became physically violent with Matt and his mother, and in fact struck the child.

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