A high school football assistant coach told his supervisors that he had ordered the attack on a Texas referee that has been seen by millions, but later recanted, saying that he had taken the blame to protect the players who delivered the blows, school officials said Thursday.
The assistant, Mack Breed, resigned from his post at John Jay High School in San Antonio, his lawyer said Thursday. A day earlier, the school district ruled that the two students, who are attending an alternative high school and could have been barred from returning to John Jay, will be allowed back in mid-January.