Article Title: Biden repeats football claim to West Point graduates at commencement address
Article Excerpt: "...Biden repeated a story about how he was 'appointed' to the U.S. Naval Academy and wanted to play football — but his path was blocked by future NFL great Roger Staubach...Biden told West Point graduates that Republican Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (deceased), whom he defeated to become a U.S. senator, had "appointed" him to the Naval Academy ...The president recounted that before his interview, "I found out two days earlier they had a quarterback named Roger Staubach, and a halfback named Joe Bellino. And I said, I'm not going there. I went to Delaware. Not a joke."
It's the same story Biden told Naval Academy graduates in 2022, when he claimed he had been accepted to the military institution in 1965 but declined to attend. "Biden attended the University of Delaware and graduated in 1965, reportedly playing briefly on the 1961 freshman team but did not finish the season.
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