An assistant Texas high school football coach accused of ordering players to hit a referee who they said had hurled racial slurs during a game has resigned, administrators said.
Gary Gutierrez, the head football coach at John Jay High School in San Antonio, said his former assistant, Mack Breed, told him he had instructed players to go after the referee Robert Watts in the waning minutes of an increasingly heated game at Marble Falls on Sept. 4.
James Reeves, Breed’s lawyer, said that Breed had resigned but was disputing accusations that players had been ordered to hit Watts.