Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais (July 2, 1891 in Chippewa Falls, WI – January 3, 1954 in Birmingham, MI), was a football player and coach at the collegiate level and a coach at the professional level. Dorais developed into one of football's foremost students and tutors, a man possessed with untiring devotion to the sport. Although he and Knute Rockne would be recognized as one of the finest passing tandems of all time (during their time at Notre Dame)...
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Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais (July 2, 1891 in Chippewa Falls, WI – January 3, 1954 in Birmingham, MI), was a football player and coach at the collegiate level and a coach at the professional level. Dorais developed into one of football's foremost students and tutors, a man possessed with untiring devotion to the sport. Although he and Knute Rockne would be recognized as one of the finest passing tandems of all time (during their time at Notre Dame), it would be as a coach, not as a player, that Dorais would gain election into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Dorais, who arrived at Notre Dame from Chippewa Falls, Wis., in the summer of 1910, started four seasons for the Irish at quarterback, but it was during his senior season that he became part of college football history.
During the summer of 1913, Dorais and his Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne worked as lifeguards and busboys at Cedar Point Resort in Sandusky, Ohio. During their free time there, the story goes, the duo practiced...
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