2:01 p.m., Oct. 13, 2008----Taking an evening off from the campaign trail, Democratic vice presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. attended the University of Delaware football game played Saturday at Tubby Raymond Field at Delaware Stadium.

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Biden and his wife, Jill Jacobs-Biden, Double Dels as both are University graduates, sat with UD President Patrick Harker and wife, Emily, and with retired Hall of Fame coach Harold R. “Tubby” Raymond.

Footage of Biden at the football game ran on CNN Sunday Morning. During the segment, CNN's T.J. Holmes asked meteorologist Reynolds Wolf if he knew the University of Delaware mascot, which he did not.

Biden, of course, is very familiar with the mascot. He played freshman football for the Fightin' Blue Hens as what he has called with self-deprecating humor a “half-baked halfback.”

Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 with a double major in history and political science. He was inducted into the UD Alumni Wall of Fame in 1984 and was presented an honorary doctor of letters degree in 2004. Jill Jacobs-Biden received a bachelor's degree from UD in 1975 and a doctor of education degree in 2006.

For the record, the Blue Hens lost the game 27-10 to the University of Maine and are now 2-4 overall and 0-2 in the Colonial Athletic Association.

Jake Tapper, the senior national correspondent for ABC News, wrote in a blog entry following the game, “Biden will hope he fares better than his alma mater on Election Day in just over three weeks.”

The Blue Hens will return to action with the Homecoming game at noon, Saturday, Oct. 18, against the College of William and Mary.

Article by Neil Thomas
Photos by Mark Campbell