President Biden bragged about his high school football glory days on Wednesday, claiming to have been “runner-up in the state scoring championship” during a speech at a summit of Native American nations.
The president, who is known to exaggerate or embellish details about his life, lamented that in his youth, he had to choose between playing lacrosse or football, and chose the pigskin because of his prowess on the gridiron.
“You can’t play both in the same season,” Biden, 81, said.
“And because I’m a strong, 6-foot, 158-pound, fullback,” he explained as the audience burst into laughter.
The laughter prompted him to further justify his decision by bragging about his scoring prowess at Delaware’s Archmere Academy in the early 1960s.
“I was the runner-up in the state scoring championship,” the president claimed. “Don’t laugh, friend.”
In 1960, Biden finished fifth in the “conference scoring race,” scoring four touchdowns, good for 24 points, according to a 2020 article in the Daily Pennsylvanian.
“And because I’m a powerful, 6-foot, 158-pound, full-back flanker,” the 81-year-old president explained as the audience burst into laughter. Getty Images
In 1960, Biden finished fifth in the “conference scoring race,” scoring four touchdowns, good for 24 points, according to a 2020 article in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Getty Images
The article noted that when Archmere’s four non-conference games were taken into account, Biden’s points total for the year reached 60, “placing him among the highest in the state of Delaware.”
It is unclear whether he was “runner-up” in the state that year.
Biden has previously made claims about his football career that turned out to be untrue.
In 2012, he falsely claimed that he was on the University of Delaware Blue Hens football team that beat the Ohio Bobcats in 1963.
“I just checked my memory, you know, you’re about my age, and you’re not so sure you remember. You know, your heyday seems more glorious than it really is,” Biden said at an Ohio campaign stop at the time. “I’m back on the Internet, and I just want you to know that I came here on Oct. 19, 1963, and we beat you Bobcats, 29-12.”
The University of Delaware later said that Biden did not play in the game. And Biden, a freshman at the time of the game, will not be allowed to play for the varsity squad, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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