ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The first former Michigan football player to publicly say that a team doctor abused him believes he would have sought medical help sooner for what has become late-stage cancer if he hadn't been victimized in college.
Chuck Christian, a 60-year-old artist in suburban Boston, said during a videoconferencing interview Wednesday that the late Dr.
Robert Anderson gave him unnecessary rectal exams before he played for the Wolverines during 1977-80 seasons. Christian said he has stage 4 prostate cancer that could have been treated sooner and more effectively if he wasn't emotionally scarred by Anderson's annual physicals. “I’m kind of surprised that nobody else (from the football program) has spoken out,” Christian told The