{{Short description|Canadian football player (1943–2005)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox gridiron football person | name = Ted Dushinski | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1943|11|10}} | birth_place = Ituna, Saskatchewan, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2005|10|24|1943|11|10}} | death_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | team = | number = | status = | import = no | position1 = Defensive back | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 0 | weight_lb = 190 | amateur_title = CJFL | amateur_team = Saskatoon Hilltops | playing_years1 = {{CFL Year|1965}}–{{CFL Year|1975}} | playing_team1 = Saskatchewan Roughriders | playing_years2 = {{CFL Year|1976}}–{{CFL Year|1977}} | playing_team2 = BC Lions | career_highlights = * Grey Cup champion (1966) * 2× CFL West All-Star ({{CFL Year|1970}}, {{CFL Year|1975}}) * Saskatchewan Roughrider Hall of Fame }} '''Ted J. Dushinski''' (November 10, 1943 – October 24, 2005) was a former defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
==Early days== Ted Dushinski was born in Ituna, Saskatchewan in 1943. Dushinski loved hockey when younger, playing junior hockey with the Saskatoon Quakers as a young boy. He continued playing senior hockey during the off-season even after joining a pro football team, only stopping when football coach Eagle Keys requested it in case of injury.<ref name="Saskatoon StarPhoenix">{{cite news| last =Saskatoon StarPhoenix| title =Former Roughriders defensive back Ted Dushinski dead at age 61| publisher =Canadian Press| date =October 25, 2005| url =http://www.canada.com/sports/football/cfl/story.html?id=cee25e7c-9ba2-47e5-aaa4-333a30f92a9e| accessdate =June 7, 2007| url-status=dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20121025113620/http://www.canada.com/sports/football/cfl/story.html?id=cee25e7c-9ba2-47e5-aaa4-333a30f92a9e| archivedate =October 25, 2012}}</ref>
Dushinski played junior football with the Saskatoon Hilltops before joining the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1965.
==CFL== Dushinski played eleven seasons with the team, helping them to victory in their first ever Grey Cup win in 1966 over the Ottawa Rough Riders by a score of 29-14. He also played in the 55th Grey Cup of 1967 and the 57th Grey Cup of 1969, losses to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa, respectively. Dushinski was elected to the All Star Team in 1972. Leaving the Saskatchewan team after eleven seasons, he joined the BC Lions from 1976 to 1979
==Post-football== He decided to retire after the 1977 season for business and family reasons, stating in a 1978 interview with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix that he wanted to "sever my relationships with football with good feelings [...] the game has treated me well and I decided to walk away from it gracefully."<ref name="Saskatoon StarPhoenix" />
He was married to singer/songwriter Susan Jacks (née Pesklevits).<ref name="cp-cbc">{{cite news |last1=Bains |first1=Camille |title=Poppy Family singer-songwriter Susan Jacks dies at 73 in B.C. hospital awaiting 2nd kidney transplant |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/susan-jacks-obit-1.6431954 |access-date=April 28, 2022 |agency=The Canadian Press |publisher=CBC News |date=April 26, 2022}}</ref> Ted and Susan had one son named Thad. In 1983, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee and were living in Antioch before Ted's death.
==Honors== Dushinski was enshrined into the Saskatchewan Roughrider Hall of Fame in 1993.<ref name="CBCSports">{{cite news| title=Roughrider great Ted Dushinski passes away |publisher=CBC Sports | date=October 25, 2005 | url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/roughrider-great-ted-dushinski-passes-away-1.527964 | access-date=June 7, 2007}}</ref>
==Death== He died of lung cancer in 2005, at the age of 61.
==Videos== {{YouTube|Kuclh4OdxCI|Seen in game 3 of the 1970 Western Conference finals in its entirety}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{54th Grey Cup}}
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