playing_years draftedround birth_place playing_team stats article_title position birth_date college name draftedyear
1953 -- 1955 30 north bergen , new jersey pittsburgh steelers y lou tepe
 offensive lineman 18 june 1930 duke university lou tepe 1953
lou tepe

louis charles `` lou '' tepe -lrb- born june 18 , 1930 -rrb- is a former professional american football player who played offensive lineman for three seasons for the pittsburgh steelers .
born in north bergen , new jersey , tepe grew up in englewood , new jersey , where he played high school football at dwight morrow high school .
tepe had received scholarship offers from four colleges , and chose duke university because it gave him the opportunity to get as far away as possible from where he grew up in new jersey .
tepe graduated from duke in 1953 with a degree in engineering , and ultimately went into the field as a profession after completing his three-season nfl career .
he was selected by the pittsburgh steelers , having been drafted as a center in the 30th round of the 1953 nfl draft as the 354th selection overall .
filling a need on the team , he shifted to outside linebacker and started at that position for two years .
tepe had been signed by the toronto argonauts of the canadian football league after the 1953 nfl season , but was released by the argonauts in june 1954 as he was still under contract to pittsburgh .
tepe was the right linebacker for the steelers in all 12 games of the 1954 season , playing on a team that was pioneering the use of the modern-standard 4 -- 3 defense alignment with four down linemen and three linebackers .
he was one of the last players to make the steelers team in the 1955 season , having made the final cut that saw johnny unitas eliminated from the team .
while with the steelers , tepe wore jersey number 55 in 1955 and 61 during both the 1954 and 1955 seasons .
tepe moved with his family to denver in 1967 .
from 1995 -- 2000 he was an assistant football coach at littleton high school and in the fall of 2007 , tepe signed on to be an assistant coach for the football team of john f. kennedy high school in denver .
tepe has worked to use his influence with the national football league to convince each nfl team to donate $ 100,000 that would be used to provide counseling to high school students in each team 's home city .
tepe 's older brother , harold , was killed in action serving during world war ii under general george s. patton in north africa and was buried in tunisia .
