Mark Snyder

Detroit Free Press

Michigan's spring football game will kick off at 1 p.m. on April 15.

The athletic department announced in a promotional email that the game, which features free admission, will be preceded by a men's lacrosse match against Ohio State.

That game will start at 10:30 a.m. and the first 250 kids attending will receive a lacrosse t-shirt.

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The spring game will occur in the middle of the spring practice season instead of at the end because of Michigan's April 21-30 trip to Rome, Italy.

U-M began using its 15 spring practices on Friday and is practicing every two or three days. The spring game will be practice No. 11, then the Wolverines will have their final Ann Arbor workout on April 18.

There will be three practices in Rome at the end of the week there to conclude the spring.

Contact Mark Snyder: msnyder@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @mark__snyder.

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