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An assistant Texas high school football coach accused of ordering players to hit a referee who allegedly hurled racial slurs during a game has resigned, and the head coach may also face discipline, administrators said Thursday. The two players who blindsided referee Robert Watts and knocked him down did not attend a fact-finding hearing in Austin over the Sept. 4 game. John Jay High School head football coach Gary Gutierrez apologized to the University Interscholastic League, the state's governing board for high school sports, which could bring down hard sanctions against the coach and school but adjourned without taking any action.
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