Daily News | Coaches mourn the death of Dan Dougherty, a Philadelphia basketball heavyweight
JOSEPH KACZMAREK/For the Daily NewsSeveral years back, Dan Dougherty was sitting in the back of the room at a basketball luncheon. He had a story to tell about one of the coaches on the dais.
That day, Dougherty wanted to relate the tale of how Dunphy, now La Salle’s coach, at his third Big 5 head-coaching spot, got his own coaching start. Dougherty noted that Dunphy, just out of La Salle, was in the Army, at the Presidio in San Francisco, next stop Vietnam, when a call came in. Dunphy had been reassigned to West Point, still enlisted, but he was to be an assistant men’s basketball coach.“My mother thanks you,’’ said the familiar man at the door. “My father thanks you.”
“I had him in class twice,” Dunphy said of his days at Malvern Prep. “He taught me math. He made me serviceable in math.” “Meticulous,” Flint said Monday when asked what words came to mind when he thought of a Dan Dougherty practice.