A son of Bo Schembechler, the coach who did more than any other to build the University of Michigan program into the one with the most wins in college football history, said his father angrily ignored his account of sexual abuse by a university doctor in 1969.
Matt Schembechler, one of the coach’s three adopted sons, made the accusation in interviews with The New York Times and other news organizations almost one month after a university-commissioned investigation concluded that Robert E. Anderson, the team doctor, had “engaged in sexual misconduct with patients on countless occasions.”
“I felt betrayed,” Schembechler, 62, said Wednesday of his father’s dismissal of his complaints that Anderson had molested him during an examination in 1969 when he was 10 years old.