“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.” (NYT)