George Terlep

George Rudolph "Duke" Terlep (April 12, 1923 – May 17, 2010) was an American professional football player, coach, and general manager and member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.

Playing career
An All-State back from Elkhart High School (now Elkhart Central and Elkhart Memorial), Terlep played for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1943 winning a national championship under coach Frank Leahy. Terlep had to leave during the 1944 season due to military service. He played quarterback for the Great Lakes Sailors football team based at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. That year Terlep starred for coach Paul Brown's Great Lakes team and led his team to victory over his Notre Dame alma mater.

In 1946 he was discharged and signed with the Buffalo Bills /Buffalo Bisons of the All-America Football Conference and was the starting quarterback.

During the 1948 season he was sold to the Cleveland Browns to again play for Coach Paul Brown and won a NFL championship with his new team.

Coaching career
Terlep's coaching career began in 1949 as the Backfield coach at the University of South Carolina. From 1951 to 1952, he was an assistant at Vanderbilt University. Another assistant on the team, Steve Belichick, father of Bill Belichick, was one of Terlep's closest friends until Belichick's death in 2005.

In 1953 he was hired by Lisle Blackbourn to coach the same position at Marquette University. When Blackbourn was hired to coach the Green Bay Packers the following season, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania. In 1956 he joined the Indiana University where he coached the Hoosiers backfield.

Terlep moved to Canada in 1957 to become backfield coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU). He was named head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders on January 24, 1958. During his first year at the helm, the team finished third place in the WIFU with a record of 7–7–2, and lost in the semifinals to the Edmonton Eskimos. After losing the first 11 games of the next season, Terlep was fired on September 30, 1959 and replaced by Frank Tripucka, who took the reins as head coach for the balance of the year. Following his dismission, he immediately joined the Ottawa Rough Riders as backfield coach. Terlep was named Ottawa's general manager in December 1959, succeeding Jim McCaffrey.

In 1960 the Rough Riders defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 16-6 in the 48th Grey Cup. After a disappointing 6-7-1 season in 1962 he resigned and was replaced by the team's former wide receiver Red O'Quinn.