Never heard of him. This article says he a lefty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/18princeton.html
For Princeton's Terrell, One Final Flourish
Published: November 18, 2006
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 15 — Princeton students spilled onto the field Saturday afternoon at the
Yale Bowl. The Tigers had rallied to beat Yale, and one of the biggest surprises was that so many students — enough to fill nine buses — were there to celebrate.
Mia M. Malafronte/Associated Press
Princeton, led by Jeff Terrell, was picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League but can win the title on Saturday.
“People you wouldn’t think cared about football were hopping on a bus and going up to Yale,” Jeff Terrell, the Tigers’ senior quarterback, said after practice Wednesday, smiling and shaking his head at the improbability of it all.
With a victory at home Saturday against Dartmouth, Princeton (8-1 over all, 5-1
Ivy League) can clinch its first championship since 1995 and the school’s first nine-victory season since 1964, when the all-American fullback Cosmo
Iacavazzi starred for the Tigers.
Terrell, a left-hander, is the star of this Princeton team. He played perhaps the best game of his collegiate career in the 34-31 victory against Yale, throwing for 445 yards and three touchdowns.
“Coming into this year, I knew the Yale game was going to be a circled date on my calendar,” Terrell said.
There were no guarantees the Princeton-Yale game would mean so much.
The Tigers were picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League, and they had four new starters on the offensive line. This season, they have rallied to win four games in the fourth quarter, including the Yale game.
“What Jeff has done with this team is that he’s let them think that they’re better than they are,” Princeton Coach Roger Hughes said.
Terrell has also succeeded in getting more of the 4,600 undergraduate students and 1,800 graduate students at Princeton to notice the football team. Hughes, in his seventh season, says the team is not just easy to coach, but easy for other students to like.
“There’s no question that it’s been our goal to get the university to embrace the football team,” Hughes said of another mission that has been accomplished.
Brendan Circle, a junior wide receiver, said: “Obviously, there’s a little more of a buzz about football than there has been. When you went to class before, it was hard to distinguish a football player if he wasn’t wearing football stuff or if he wasn’t bigger than other guys.”
Terrell grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, and played at the University School, a private boys school that had not had much success in football before he arrived. By his senior year, University School was in the playoffs.
“After we dropped him off at Princeton to go to his first practice, we thought he’d say he’d have fun because he loved football,” his mother, Sally Terrell, said. “He called us that night and said, ‘That was the hardest day of my entire life.’ ”
His father, Steve, remembered his son’s first scrimmage, also at Yale. Terrell threw five passes. Two were intercepted and returned for touchdowns.
Steve Terrell, chuckling, remembered telling people that his son was 2 for 5 with two touchdowns.
Terrell did not play in a game during his first two seasons at Princeton. Steve Terrell said his son steeled himself to the possibility that he might not play at all. As recently as 15 months ago, Terrell was Princeton’s third-string quarterback. He threw five interceptions in a bitter 21-14 loss to Yale last November, including one that the Bulldogs turned into the winning touchdown with 47 seconds remaining.
The turning point, Hughes said, was a 43-3 victory against Columbia on Oct. 1, 2005. Terrell was capable and confident that day, Hughes said. He won the starting job over Bill Foran, a junior, who will probably become the starter next season.
Princeton’s offense often lines up in a shotgun formation, and Hughes says he likes to call misdirection plays to take the pressure off the young offensive line. But Terrell has only been sacked 10 times this year because he can throw in a hurry.
“The biggest difference between this year and last year is that he’s not turning the ball over,” Yale Coach Jack Siedlecki said. “His maturity as a quarterback is obvious.”
Terrell, who is a religion major, and the senior linebacker Luke Steckel, Princeton’s co-captains, are involved with the campus’s Athletes in Action chapter, a ministry group. Last year, they started a low-key Thursday night Bible study that draws dozens of athletes, according to Hughes.
“I can’t talk about it,” Terrell said of his success, “without referring to my faith.”
Ivy League schools do not participate in the
N.C.A.A. Division I-AA playoffs, so Princeton’s game Saturday against Dartmouth (2-7, 2-4) may be Terrell’s last meaningful football game. He has applied to work for the
Central Intelligence Agency and has also considered working for a relief agency overseas. But for now, he is focusing on enjoying one last weekend with his
teammates.
