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Digitized from Box 30 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 15, 1976
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Ann Arbor, Michigan)
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
TO THE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FOOTBALL TEAM
THE MICHIGAN UNION
6:23 P.M. EDT
First of all, I thank you very much for
permitting me to join all of this great ball team for
a meal before I have a little engagement down the road
here.
In those stories that I was considered a great
all-time center I found this -- the longer you get away
from the reality, the bigger those stories get. (Laughter)
So, make all your fame now, and I can only say they get
better because the longer you are away from school the
fewer there are of people to tell the truth about what
happened. (Laughter)
I am just honored to come back here, coming to
the campus, coming back to great memories. I can recall
vividly my freshman year. We couldn't play on the
varsity in the freshman year and I ate a few meals in the
Union and I really got to love and feel very strongly
about this University. I think it has contributed very
significantly to whatever success I have had.
The friends I have made and the opportunities
educationally and the whole atmosphere here was a great
factor in the incentive and the drive to do as well as
one could. I know that with the great record that you
have -- and I can say as a Monday morning or grandstand
quarterback -- I sit up there in the stands and watch
on television -- and I am very proud of the great
record that you have and the way you play football. You
play to win, and that is the only way I know to move
ahead, whether you are on the gridiron or whether you
are in classrooms or whether you are in politics or any-
thing else.
So, good luck, beat Stanford, and you have nine
more. ball games before you go to the Rose Bowl
END
(AT 6:25 P.M. EDT)