Donald Paul "Suds" Sutherin (born February 29, 1936 in Empire, Ohio

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) is a former Canadian Football League

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 (CFL) and National Football League

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 (NFL) defensive back

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 and placekicker

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. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame

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 (1992).

Playing career

Sutherin played college football at Ohio State

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, and kicked the game-winning field goal in the 1958 Rose Bowl

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, giving Ohio State its third national championship. He was drafted

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 by the New York Giants

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 in the eighth round of the 1959 NFL Draft

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 and played in the NFL from 1959-1960 for the Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers

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.

He started his playing career with Hamilton Tiger-Cats

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 in 1958. After playing in the NFL, he returned to Hamilton in 1960, where he would play seven more seasons. He played for the Ottawa Rough Riders

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 from 1967–1969 and the Toronto Argonauts

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 in 1970. He spent a total of 12 years as a player in the CFL and played in eight Grey Cup

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s, winning four.

While with the Tiger-Cats, he was noted for being both a defensive back as well as a placekicker and he led the CFL in points several years.

Sutherin was honoured on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' Wall of Fame at Ivor Wynne Stadium

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on October 24, 2008.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Don Sutherin was an assistant coach with the Edmonton Eskimos from 1985 to 1990 and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1990 to 1994. He was promoted to head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1994 and remained in that role until 1997.