Deral Teteak

{{Short description|American football player (1929–2014)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Deral Teteak

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|12|11}}

| birth_place = Oconto, Wisconsin, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|12|18|1929|12|11}}

| death_place = Naples, Florida, U.S.

| position = Guard, Linebacker

| high_school = Oshkosh (Wisconsin)

| college = Wisconsin

| draftyear = 1952

| draftround = 9

| draftpick = 100

| pastteams =

• Green Bay Packers ({{nfly|1952|56}})

| highlights =

• Pro Bowl (1953)
• Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
• First-team All-Big Ten (1951)

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 49

| statlabel2 = Interceptions

| statvalue2 = 6

| statlabel3 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue3 = 5

| pfr = TeteDe00

}}

Deral Teteak (December 11, 1929 – December 18, 2014) was an American football guard and linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers.{{cite news|title=Deral Teteack To Be Speaker at UW Dinner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1466595/deral_teteack_19292014/|newspaper=Oshkosh Daily Northwestern|date=May 30, 1958|page=4|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = December 26, 2014 }} {{Open access}} He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1987.{{Cite web | url = https://www.packers.com/history/hof/deral-teteak | title = Deral Teteak | last = Christl | first = Cliff | author-link = Cliff Christl | website = Packers.com | access-date = September 20, 2023 | archive-date = May 24, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230524002412/https://www.packers.com/history/hof/deral-teteak | url-status = live }}

Teteak was born on December 11, 1929, the son of Miles Teteak and Aritha Hansen Teteak. He attended Oshkosh High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After playing for the Packers, he worked as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin.{{cite news|title=Former Packer Deral Teteack Is Sold on 'Little' Brother's Ability |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1466587/deral_teteak_19292014/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=January 27, 1959|page=21|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = December 26, 2014 }} {{Open access}}

Teteak died on December 18, 2014, in a nursing home in Naples, Florida, at the age of 85. He was married for almost 60 years to his wife, Shirley. He had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Lynn.{{Cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-1/Packers-MLB-Deral-Teteak-dies-at-85/f9b2901c-2cb7-47a0-8439-dbf90089d0d2 |title=Packers MLB, Deral Teteak, dies at 85 |access-date=2014-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108043833/http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-1/Packers-MLB-Deral-Teteak-dies-at-85/f9b2901c-2cb7-47a0-8439-dbf90089d0d2 |archive-date=2015-01-08 |url-status=dead }}