[1] He played halfback, holder, and punter for the Holy Cross Crusaders football team and was a member of the undefeated 1935 squad.
Although he was exempt from military service during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
[3] On December 29, 1965, it was announced that Dougherty would succeed Gene Flynn as Holy Cross' athletic director on July 1, 1966.
[1] In 1969, Dougherty led the athletic department through a Hepatitis outbreak that infected 90 of the football team's 97 players, coaches, and staff.
He spent his later years in Sandwich, Massachusetts and died on January 4, 1989, at the Brockton VA Medical Center from Alzheimer's disease.