1. George Rudolph "Duke" Terlep 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 in 1948.
George Terlep grew up in Indiana and was a star on his high school's football team.
George Terlep 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 US military during World War II.
George Terlep played briefly for a team at a military base in Illinois coached by Paul Brown.
George Terlep joined the Browns in 1948, when Cleveland won all its games and a third straight AAFC championship.
George Terlep ended his playing career in 1949 to pursue coaching.
George Terlep spent several years as a college backfield coach, first at the University of South Carolina, then at Vanderbilt, Marquette, Penn and Indiana.
George Terlep then became general manager of the Ottawa Rough Riders, and was responsible for bringing future hall of fame quarterback Ron Lancaster into the league.
George Terlep left football in 1962 and returned to his hometown, where he worked in the mobile homes business.
George Terlep retired in 1985 to Florida, where he died in 2010.
George Terlep was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
George Terlep grew up in Elkhart, Indiana, and was a standout halfback at the local Elkhart High School starting in 1937.
George Terlep was named an all-state back by sportswriters in 1941, his senior year.
George Terlep was named an All-Northern Indiana Athletic Conference player as the Elkhart Blue Blazers won a conference championship that year.
George Terlep served as a center and as a backup to quarterback Angelo Bertelli, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1943.
George 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.
George Terlep 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.
George Terlep ran for a touchdown and passed for another against his alma mater.
George Terlep then began a coaching career as an assistant at the University of South Carolina after Leahy, his former Notre Dame coach, recommended him.
George Terlep worked at South Carolina for two seasons under head coach Rex Enright, a fellow Notre Dame graduate.
George Terlep then moved to a job as an assistant at Vanderbilt University, where he remained through 1952.
George Terlep's next stop was as backfield coach at Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1953 under head coach Lisle Blackbourn.
George Terlep was a leading candidate to replace him, but was passed over in favor of Frosty Ferzacca, a Wisconsin high school coach.
George Terlep left Marquette shortly thereafter to be backfield coach at the University of Pennsylvania under Steve Sebo.
George Terlep moved to Canada in 1957 to become backfield coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.
The Roughriders lost in the semifinals of the conference playoffs to the Edmonton Eskimos, but George Terlep was given a new two-year contract after the season.
George Terlep immediately joined the Ottawa Rough Riders as backfield coach following his dismissal.
George Terlep was named Ottawa's general manager within three months of his hiring as an assistant, succeeding Jim McCaffrey.
George Terlep's responsibilities included recruiting and signing players to improve Ottawa's roster, and he was responsible for bringing quarterback Ron Lancaster to the CFL in 1960 on the advice of Bill Edwards, his former Vanderbilt colleague.
George Terlep, who hosted a radio and television program about football, had clashed with Rough Riders head coach Frank Clair over the team's play-calling.
George Terlep left football in 1962 and went back to Elkhart, where he ran a recreational vehicle and mobile homes business.
George Terlep retired in 1985 and moved to Florida, where he died in 2010 of cancer.
George Terlep was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
George Terlep is a member of the Elkhart County Sports Hall of Fame.