MATT SCHEMBECHLER

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jon Vaughn still can recall the first team meeting with Bo Schembechler. It was the summer of 1988, Vaughn’s first year on the football team, and the legendary coach brought the roster together for a speech. Vaughn has detailed his experiences at Michigan before, alleging that Anderson sexually abused him during each of his estimated 10 to 12 visits to see the doctor. “This is not about us versus Bo,” Vaughn said. Two other former Michigan football players, Daniel Kwiatkowski and Gilvanni Johnson, both said they were abused by Anderson and told Schembechler, too.

Anderson, he told Goldman, would need to write a referral to see a specialist at the hospital. “I went into Don Canham’s office, said ‘Something’s wrong,’ and he sat there and stood at me (and) said nothing,” Goldman said. He reported the incident to Schembechler, Goldman said, who again told him to see Canham. Matt Schembechler says he told his father about the incident and claims Canham promptly fired Anderson, only for Bo Schembechler to reinstate him. “However, Don Canham, as at the athletics director, had the power way back in the ’60s.

People gathered Wednesday morning outside Michigan Stadium to demand the University of Michigan launch a full investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse committed by the late Dr. Robert Anderson.

Family members of the late Bo Schembechler came to his defense this week, issuing a clear rebuke of allegations that the legendary Michigan football coach was made aware of sexual abuse allegations involving Dr. Robert Anderson. “To the contrary, in our steadfast opinion, Bo was not aware of such conduct and assumed that any procedures were medically appropriate. “If Bo had known of inappropriate conduct, we are certain that he would have stopped it immediately, reported it, and had Dr. Anderson removed from the University,” the letter continues. “Our experiences tell us that the Bo Schembechler that we knew would never have tolerated any abuse or mistreatment of his players, his staff, or any other individual,” the letter reads. Yearly physicals by family doctors, or athletic physicals by a University doctor were the same physicals as performed by the United States military.

Bo’s statue stood silent in the hot sun Friday. No one came to admire or protest it. The same goes for Schembechler Hall, despite his own son relaying his traumatic story Thursday.

Here's everything you need to know about what Bo Schembechler’s son and two former University of Michigan football players said about Dr. Robert Anderson's abuse and the legendary coach's handling of the situation.

He said he was just 10 years old when former University of Michigan doctor Robert Anderson molested him during a physical exam in 1969.

More: Jim Harbaugh’s defense of Bo prompted Michigan teammate to disclose sexual abuse“It wasn’t just Bo Schembechler that allowed that predator to persist for all them years,” Kwiatkowski said. They were made to feel shamed and embarrassed, and all three said they told Bo Schembechler at different points of his legendary coaching career at Michigan. “From this point forward, make sure that none of these kids — kids that come in for camps, kids that come in to play for Michigan — are assaulted again,” said Johnson, who played at Michigan from 1982 to 1986. “They threw a blanket apology, but (I want) an apology for us — the victims,” Johnson said. As for the statue and building name, Schembechler told MLive after the news conference that he could not be more apathetic with what the university decides.

An advisory committee at the University of Michigan has recommended that the university remove the name of Fielding Yost from the university’s ice arena. He was foundational to the success of Michigan athletics, credited with leading the Michigan football team to four straight national championship wins from 1901-04. On Thursday, former Michigan football player Matt Schembechler came forward saying that former team doctor Robert E. Anderson molested him and other teammates. Sports writer John U. Bacon and Professor Hilary Green say the answer is not as simple as removing names from monuments. Bacon emphasizes the importance of addressing Yost’s racist legacy, but he says removing Yost’s name from the ice arena is a complicated matter.

Matt Schembechler said he believes the abuse continued for so long because of a culture that placed the university’s reputation above student safety.

One of legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler’s sons and two of his former players have described in detail how they were molested by the team’s longtime doctor and how Schembechler turned a blind eye when they told him about it.

NOVI, Mich. — The son of legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler says he was sexually abused by the late doctor Robert Anderson, and he told his father about it. “It is a deeply personal story of abuse and betrayal, a story of mistrust in a doctor and betrayal of my father,” Schembechler said, reading from a statement while seated next to his Okemos-based attorney, Mick Grewal. Schembechler, now 62 years old and living in Ann Arbor, said he was sent to Anderson as a fourth-grader gearing up to play junior football. In fact, Matt Schembechler says, Bo did just the opposite. “We are committed to resolving their claims and to continuing the court-guided confidential mediation process.”

Matt Schembechler, son of Bo Schembechler says dad knew he and others were sexually abused by U of M doctor, dr. Anderson but did nothing.

Matt Schembechler, son of Bo Schembechler says dad knew he and others were sexually abused by U of M doctor, dr. Anderson but did nothing.

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Matt Schembechler and former University of Michigan football players Daniel Kwiatkowski and Gilvanni Johnson discuss sexual abuse claims against Dr. Robert Anderson during a press conference Thursday.

Matt Schembechler, 62, is set to speak at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 10.

Matt Schembechler says the iconic football coach did nothing to stop Dr. Robert Anderson. A report done for the University of Michigan report says Anderson abused hundreds over decades.

Matt Schembechler, 62, is set to speak at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 10.

Lawyers say a son of legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler was among the hundreds of men who were sexually assaulted by a campus doctor.

The adopted son of Bo Schembechler will go public Thursday with claims that he, too, was sexually assaulted by the late Dr. Robert Anderson. And he says he told the legendary former Michigan football coach about it. Bo Schembechler served as head football coach at Michigan from 1969 to 1989 and director of the athletic department from 1988 to 1990. The public claims from Schembechler’s son come just days after Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh defended Bo Schembechler, telling reporters that “(Bo) never sat on anything.”“Nothing was ever swept under the rug or ignored,” Harbaugh said. That’s the Bo Schembechler that I know.”Harbaugh’s father, Jack, was an assistant coach under Bo Schembechler at Michigan.

The son of legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler said he will come forward with evidence against his father in the case of a university doctor believed to have sexually abused hundreds of patients.