 Temerario while atIndiana University in 1937 | |
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| Position | Coach |
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| Born | (1906-02-18)February 18, 1906 Lorain, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | July 7, 2001(2001-07-07) (aged 95) |
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| High school | New Brighton (PA) |
| College | Geneva College |
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Carmel Arthur "Tim"Temerario (February 18, 1906 –July 7, 2001) was a high school, college and professionalAmerican football coach and executive. He was an assistant coach for theDetroit Lions,Cleveland Browns andWashington Redskins, and served as the Redskins' director of player personnel between 1965 and 1978.
Temerario grew up inLorain, Ohio, but moved toPennsylvania with his family during high school. He attendedGeneva College inBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania and played a variety of positions on the school's football team. He was named themost valuable player in 1931, when the team went undefeated.
After graduating, Temerario began a coaching career, first atEast Liverpool High School in Ohio and then as an assistant atDenison University andIndiana University in the 1930s and 1940s. His career was interrupted by service in theU.S. Navy duringWorld War II. He returned to Indiana in 1945 as an assistant toBo McMillin as the team won theBig Ten Conference championship. When McMillin became head coach of the Lions in 1948, Temerario moved with him. He worked there for two years before being hired as an assistant for the Browns in 1950. The Browns won theNFL championship that year.
Temerario spent two seasons with the Browns before becoming an assistant atNorth Carolina State University and theUniversity of Pennsylvania. The Redskins hired him as an assistant in 1960, a position he retained through 1965. He then became the team's director of player personnel, staying in that role until his retirement in 1978. He was inducted into the Lorain Sports Hall of Fame in 1973 and the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.
Temerario was born inLorain, Ohio and attendedLorain High School.[1] His father was a construction worker who traveled frequently, and Temerario later enrolled at two other high schools.[2] He spent hisjunior andsenior years atNew Brighton High School inPennsylvania, where he played as acenter on the football team.[2] He graduated in 1927.[2]
Temerario enrolled atGeneva College inBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania and played football there under head coachesBo McMillin,Mack Flenniken andHoward Harpster.[3][4] He played center,quarterback,end,guard andlinebacker.[2] Temerario was voted themost valuable player of a 1931 team that went undefeated under Harpster.[2] He graduated later that year.[5]
After college, Temerario began a football coaching career atEast Liverpool High School inEast Liverpool, Ohio.[5] He then worked for three years as the line coach for the freshman team atIndiana University before being hired as the varsity line coach at Ohio'sDenison University in 1938.[5] He remained at Denison until returning to Indiana as the varsity team's ends coach in 1941.[5] The team finished with a 2–6win–loss record that year.[6]
Temerario left Indiana later in 1941 to serve in theU.S. Navy as American involvement inWorld War II intensified.[2] He was initially placed in a physical education program run by Navy coachTom Hamilton, but later requested a transfer to active duty.[5] He served as a beachmaster during thePhilippines Campaign and atUtah Beach during theNormandy landings in 1944.[2] He rose to the rank oflieutenant commander and was in the military until the war ended in 1945.[2]
Temerario returned to Indiana in 1945 and was an assistant under Bo McMillin, his first coach when he played at Geneva.[2] TheIndiana Hoosiers football team finished with a 9–0–1 record that year and won theBig Ten Conference championship.[2][7] Indiana was ranked fourth in theAP Poll of the best college teams in the nation.[8]
Temerario rose to become McMillin's top assistant at Indiana, and earned a master's degree in physical education while he was there.[5] When McMillin left to become head coach of theDetroit Lions of theNational Football League in 1948, Temerario went with him.[5][9] He was an assistant for the Lions in the 1948 and 1949 seasons, both of which ended with losing records.[10][11]
Paul Brown, the head coach and general manager of the NFL'sCleveland Browns, appointed Temerario the team's ends coach and chief scout in April 1950.[5] He replacedDick Gallagher, who had left to become the head football coach atSanta Clara University.[5] Led by quarterbackOtto Graham and endsDante Lavelli andMac Speedie, the Browns finished with a 10–2 regular-season record and won theNFL championship in Temerario's first year.[12][13] He continued in Cleveland through the 1951 season, when the Browns again reached theNFL championship but lost to theLos Angeles Rams.[14]
Temerario left the Browns in 1952 because of an unspecified "disagreement" with the team.[15] Two months later, he became the ends coach atNorth Carolina State University.[9][16]Pennsylvania State University hired him as its line coach in early 1954.[17][18] Penn won theIvy League championship in 1959 after finishing the season with a 9–2 record.[19]
Temerario joined theWashington Redskins as an assistant coach in 1960, overseeing the ends and the defense at different stages through 1965.[1] He became the Redskins' head of pro player personnel in 1966 and served in that position for 13 years until his retirement in 1978.[2] In 1975, he considered bringing in professional wrestlerAndré the Giant for a tryout in training camp.[20] Temerario called and then canceled a press conference with the 7-foot-four-inch wrestler, which led to speculation that he had been signed.[20] Temerario, however, said he had only pondered the possibility and that André the Giant's salary requirements made the move impossible.[20] He was then making about $200,000 a year ($1,168,707 in 2024 dollars).[20] The Redskins never had a winning season while Temerario was an assistant coach, although the team advanced to the playoffs five times during his career as an executive.[21] The team reachedSuper Bowl VII in 1972, but lost to theMiami Dolphins.[22]
Temerario stayed in theWashington, D.C. area after retiring.[3] He was inducted into the Lorain Sports Hall of Fame in 1973 and into theBeaver County, Pennsylvania sports hall of fame in 1980.[3][23] He died of heart failure in 2001 and was interred atArlington National Cemetery, inArlington, Virginia.[24] He and his wife Charlotte had one son.
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