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Matt Schembechler: I told my dad about Dr. Anderson sexual assault in 1969

In 1969, a young Matt Schembechler sat in his family's Ann Arbor home, waiting for his dad to come in. He had news he needed to share — he had been sexually assaulted by the doctor his dad, Bo Schembechler, then in the first year of what turned into an iconic career coaching the University of Michigan football team, had sent him to for a routine physical.

He thought that would end the doctor's career at U-M.

It didn't.

Dr. Robert Anderson went on to work as a doctor at U-M until 2002, including being the head medical doctor for Schembechler's teams.