Gus dorais biography

CHARLES E. "GUS" - ABOUT THE BOOK - GUS" DORAIS

Charles Emile (Gus) Dorais - Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.

BOUND FOR GRIDIRON GLORY. The 1909 state champion football team from Chippewa Falls Senior High School. Gus Dorais is in the middle row, fourth from right. (Images: Chippewa Area History Center)

Over the last four decades thousands of football players have played at Dorais Field in Chippewa Falls.

CHARLES E. "GUS" DORAIS - HOME

So, who exactly was Gus Dorais? In short, he was one of the most important figures of football in the first half of the 1900s. While a quarterback at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, he helped revolutionize the game. Together with his good friend, roommate, and receiver – the legendary Knute Rockne – Dorais showed what the forward pass could do for an offense.

He went on to a brief but successful stint in professional ball in the pre-NFL days and became a celebrated coach in the college and then pro ranks in a career spanning nearly four decades. It is in Chippewa Falls where his road to football immortality began, though.

Together with his good friend,