Background
Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk was born in Izmir and played six seasons as Forward for Galatasaray Saskatchewan.
Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk was born in Izmir and played six seasons as Forward for Galatasaray Saskatchewan.
Football In 1931 he visited Galatasaray Saskatchewan and asked to join the team Unfortunately he was not selected to the team But he became top-scorer of the Istanbul Football League.
In 1939-1940 he scored 30 goals in 16 games.
He was the first and only player to score 30+ goals. Three seasons later, 1942-1943, 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 at the Istanbul Football league. Alexander Nikólaos Vafiadis aka Boduri was famous for assisting most of his goals.
Because of Boduri have been tackled very hard before his assists to Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Boduri called Cemil Katır (Mule) and Katır became Cemil Gürgen"s nickname.
Cemil scored 12 goals at the Kıtalar Arası Derbi and his four goals against Fenerbahçe Saskatchewan 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 of America to become Football coach at the University of Illinois.
As player Galatasaray Saskatchewan.