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Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais (July 2, – January 3, ) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.

More than a century ago, Gus Dorais – a future Notre Dame star and NFL coach – got his first taste of football stardom in Chippewa Falls.

Dorais was voted in as the head coach for the annual All-Star game in which the collegians won over the NFL Champions Green Bay Packers.

Charles "Gus" Dorais () was the quarterback of Notre Dame's "Dorais to Rockne" tandem that revolutionized football's forward pass.

Charles “Gus” Dorais was one of the originators of the forward pass in football as we know it today.

Dorais was voted in as the head coach for the annual All-Star game in which the collegians won over the NFL Champions Green Bay Packers....

Gus Dorais

American football player, coach, and administrator (–)

Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais (July 2, – January 3, ) was an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Dorais played college football at the University of Notre Dame, where he was an All-American in at quarterback, and then played professionally with the Fort Wayne Friars and Massillon Tigers.

He was the head football coach at Dubuque College (now known as Loras College) in Dubuque, Iowa from to , Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington from to , and the University of Detroit (now known as the University of Detroit Mercy) from to , compiling a career college football head coaching record of –70–12 ().

He was also the head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s Detroit Lions from to , tallying a mark of 20–31–2 (). In addition, Dorais was the head basketball coach at Notre Dame, Gonzaga, and Detroit and the head baseball coach at Notre Dame and