Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk (1918 – 3 May 1970) was a Turkish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

and Sailplane pilot.

Career

Football

Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk was born in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

and played six seasons as forward for

Galatasaray SK Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

. In 1931 he visited Galatasaray SK and asked to join the team. He was not selected to the team. Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk has never won the

Istanbul Football League The Istanbul Football League ( tr, İstanbul Futbol Ligi) was founded as a regional football league under the name Constantinople Football Association League by James La Fontaine and Henry Pears in Istanbul, the capital of the former Ottoman Emp ...

with Galatasaray, although he became top-scorer of the Istanbul Football League. In 1939-40 he scored 30 goals in 16 games. He was the first and only player to score 30+ goals. Three seasons later, in the 1942-43 season, he scored 22 goals in 11 games which makes a rate of 2.00 goals / game. First and only player to reach such a high rate in the Istanbul League. Alexander Nikólaos Vafiadis, nicknamed ''Boduri'', was famous for assisting most of his goals. Since Boduri had been tackled hard before his assists to Cemil Erlertürk, Boduri called Cemil ''Katır'' ("Mule") and ''Katır'' became Cemil Gürgen's nickname. Cemil scored 12 goals at the Intercontinental Derby and his four goals against Fenerbahçe in 1939 are still a record the most goals by a player in a match (shared).

Sailplane

Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk was also a sailplane pilot.

University of Illinois

In 1955 he moved to United States to become football coach at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

Honours

As player

Istanbul Football Cup The Istanbul Football Cup ( tr, İstanbul Futbol Kupası) was a football competition for Istanbul clubs in Turkey. The cup replaced the Istanbul Shield in 1942 and lasted until 1947. The final match between Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe was cancelle ...

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1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...

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