At 62, Coach Robert Dougherty weighs 195, stands 6 ft. 1 in., is still hard-muscled enough to 'take my turn with the boys" during football workouts at Chicago's Harrison High School. Because he has two children in college, and needs more than his $7,000 yearly salary as football coach and director of physical education to keep them there, Dougherty also takes his turn three nights a week as a taxicab driver. Moonlighting earns him about $2,000 a year, but there are inevitable brushes with Chicago's night life; knife-point holdups in 1956 and 1957 lost him $40, one watch.
Last week Coach Dougherty...
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