John Dockery
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Position: | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Brooklyn Prep (NY) | ||||||||||||
College: | Harvard | ||||||||||||
Undrafted: | 1966 | ||||||||||||
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John Dockery (September 6, 1944) is an American
sportscaster and former American football defensive back who played for the New York Jets and later the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1968 to 1973. He graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory a Jesuit High School where he lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jets out of Harvard. He spent the last two years of his playing career with the Steelers.[1]
In 1965, he played collegiate summer baseball for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the Cape Cod Baseball League. A first-baseman, Dockery played alongside future major league manager Bob Schaefer under Clouters' manager Lou Lamoriello, who skippered the team to the 1965 league title.[2]
Following his retirement, Dockery went on to co-host Sports Extra on
College Football on CBS and Notre Dame Football on NBC
.
Dockery served as a
Sunday Night Football
radiocasts, as well as sideline reporter for other games.
Dockery continues to serve the game of football by co-organizing a youth football camp with Joe Namath that is in this 44th year. Additionally after his sports career Dockery founded Cambridge Corporate Services in 1998, a New York–based outsourcing service provider.
See also
References
- ^ John Dockery. pro-football-reference.com
- ISBN 0-940160-71-4.