Terry Donahue, a Hall of Fame coach at UCLA who later succeeded Bill Walsh as 49ers general manager, was released from a southern California hospital Tuesday after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed form of cancer.
The UCLA athletics department released a statement that the 74-year-old Donahue will undergo chemotherapy once he recovers from surgery performed last Friday at UCSD’s Jacobs Medical Center in San Diego.
No further details on Donahue’s condition were immediately known and Donahue’s family said through the school it appreciates all of the well wishes but “requests privacy at this time.”
After his successful college career, Donahue joined the 49ers front office at the behest of Walsh, who groomed him to ultimately replace the legendary 49ers architect in 2001.