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GOP legislators urge Big Ten to resume fall football

Michigan Republican legislative leaders joined chamber leaders from Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Tuesday in a letter urging the Big Ten conference to reinstate the fall football season.

The decision to postpone the football season until spring was the "wrong choice" for area universities and students, said House Speaker Lee Chatfield, who signed the letter with Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, said. The Levering Republican is a former coach and athletic director at a private Christian school in northern Michigan.

"...I know how important sports can be to young people and their development," Chatfield said in a statement.