Ted J. Dushinski (November 10, 1943 – October 24, 2005) was a former defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.
[1] Dushinski played junior football with the Saskatoon Hilltops before joining the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1965.
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.
Leaving the Saskatchewan team after eleven seasons, he joined the BC Lions from 1976 to 1979 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.
In 1983, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee and were living in Antioch before Ted's death.