By JERÉ LONGMANWalter Bahr, 82, is one of four surviving members of the U.S. soccer team that stunned England in the 1950 World Cup. “The older I get, the more famous I become,” he said.
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BOALSBURG, Pa. — Walter Bahr taught junior high in Philadelphia when he made the United States soccer team for the 1950 World Cup, playing a vital role in one of the sport’s greatest upsets. Team duty paid $100 a week.
“That was double what I made teaching,” he said, laughing.
As Bahr recalls, he asked for a leave of absence near the end of the school year and was turned down. Finally, school officials relented.
“I think I had to give up my salary the last few weeks,” he said.
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