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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. ==Early life and college== Terlep grew up in Elkhart, Indiana, and was a standout halfback at the local Elkhart High School starting in 1937. He was named an all-state back by sportswriters in 1941, his senior year. Terlep was also named an All-Northern Indiana Athletic Conference player as the Elkhart Blue Blazers won a conference championship that year.〔〔 After high school, Terlep enrolled on a football scholarship at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, a Catholic university near his hometown.〔 He played at quarterback for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1943, when the team finished with a 9–1 win-loss record and won a national championship under coach Frank Leahy.〔 Terlep served as a center and as a backup to quarterback Angelo Bertelli, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1943.〔 Terlep left Notre Dame toward the end of the 1944 season to join a V-12 Navy College Training Program put in place during World War II. He was transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois and played quarterback for the base's football team under Paul Brown, the former head coach at Ohio State.〔〔 The Great Lakes Bluejackets finished the 1945 season with a 6–4–1 win-loss-tie record that included a victory over Notre Dame. Terlep ran for a touchdown and passed for another against his alma mater.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Terlep」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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