George Terlep, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player and coach, Canadian football coach
Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1923
Place of Birth: Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 17-May-2010
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About George Terlep
- George Rudolph "Duke" Terlep (April 12, 1923 – May 17, 2010) was an American football player, coach, and general manager who was on a college national championship team at Notre Dame in 1943 and won another championship while playing for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1948.
- Terlep also won two Grey Cup championships in the Canadian Football League (CFL), once as an assistant with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and once as the general manager of the Ottawa Rough Riders. Terlep grew up in Indiana and was a star on his high school's football team.
- He went on to play as a backup quarterback at Notre Dame in 1943 under head coach Frank Leahy, but left the following year to serve in the U.S.
- military during World War II.
- He played briefly for a team at a military base in Illinois coached by Paul Brown.
- After the war, Terlep joined the Buffalo Bisons of the newly formed AAFC, playing quarterback there for two years.
- He then joined the Browns in 1948, when Cleveland won all of its games and a third straight AAFC championship. Terlep ended his playing career in 1949 to pursue coaching.
- He spent several years as a college backfield coach, first at the University of South Carolina, then at Vanderbilt, Marquette, Penn and Indiana.
- In 1957, he landed a job with the Tiger-Cats, who won the Grey Cup that year.
- His success there led to his hiring as head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but he was fired after losing the first 11 games of the 1959 season.
- He then became general manager of the Ottawa Rough Riders, and was responsible for bringing future hall of fame quarterback Ron Lancaster into the league.
- Terlep left football in 1962 and returned to his hometown, where he worked in the mobile homes business.
- He retired in 1985 to Florida, where he died in 2010.
- He was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
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