Louisiana Tech Coach
Doherty left MHS in 1957 to become the defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech, a position that he held until 1966. While at Tech, his teams set six school records and won or held five Gulf States Conference championships. Williams' son, Wayne Williams, Jr., like his father a Webster Parish school superintendent, played under Doherty at Tech as did Ronnie Brown, also of Minden who became an educator and principal at Sarepta High School. Williams, Jr., described his former coach as "a very intense man on the football field and off the field one of the nicest and calmest persons you could meet."
While the defensive coach at Tech under Joe Aillet, Doherty had a heart attack, was sidelined, and temporarily replaced by Jimmy Johnson, later the coach of the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins.
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