ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The acceptance speech Jake Butt gave at an academic banquet on campus as the recipient of the Big Ten Medal of Honor came from the heart and combined both his strong academic and athletic influences.
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He refined and rehearsed the speech with John Rubadeau, his favorite English professor, and the topic came from his soul-searching after suffering an injury in the Dec. 30 Orange Bowl that required right-knee surgery for the second time in his college career.