South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-04
DORAIS LEAVES
NOTRE DAME FOR
WESTERN COLLEGE
Assistant Coach Will Guide
Destinies of Conzaga
College.
BY ARCHIE WARD.

offered South Bends famished fan
dom this scholastic year Is the an
nouncement that Charles z. Dorais.
assistant coach OF athletics at Notre
Dame university. VIII not help in
the guiding Of the Gold and Blue
athletic destiny next season. DOrais
has accepted a position as head
coach at Ganzaga college. Washing
ton and he will take up his new
duties early in September.
The western institution is
Catholic college. conducted by the
| Jesuit Fathers. and is one OF the
thriving knowledge foundries OF the
rocky mountains. Negotiations for
/ Dorais services have been under
way for several weeks and the
NOtrc Dame athletic idol yesterday
linked the document calling for his
| services for the next scholastic year.
Chance for Development.
Ganzaga college IS the institution
that gave "Dcac" Jones, one Of the
greatest football players in the
country 20 Notre Dame a few years
ago. The Spokane school mingles
with the elite or the Pacific coast.
. SUCH LtdlllS as vi fE0lls OAtEbiA ~
gics and Washington festooning its
gridirOn chart Heretofore CANA
ga has smarted under the sting Of
defeat annually from most OF its
leading opponents. but it Is now
standing on the doormat Of a sue
cessfui career
The loss Of Dorais is a body blow
10 Notre Dame athletics. In addi-
tion to assisting Rockne. head coach
at Notre Dame, in football, the di-
minutive athletic tutor had charge
OF basketball and baseball. The two
Gold and Blue coaches work in per-
feet harmony and are considered the
most brainy brace of gridiron
colonies in America. No one re-
grcts more than ROCkne that their
athletic relationship must be sever
ed.
Former Teammates.
Rocknc and Dorais were team
mates on the football teams which
won for Notre Dame the reputation
as the country's leading athletic in
stitutions Both men were picked
for all-American selections In their
final years at the university. After
startling the nation with the fam
Gus Gus 10 Rock forward pass, the
two athletic wizards proceeded last
fall 10 propagate their bewildering
style OF play with their champion
eleven. the only indicated team in
the west.
Having graduated from the law
/ department In 1914, Dorais accept
I cd a position as head coach at Du-
buque college. now Columbia col
I lege. of Dubuque. Iowa His success
with the Hawkeys athletic teams
was nothing short OF phenomenal.
In 1915 he turned out football
team that swept the Mississippi val
lev in a blizzard of success that has
left an indeHble impress on the grid
iron annals Of that section OF the
country. Dubuque was the only un-
defeated team in Iowa that fall and
ranked second only TO NOtre Dame
among western Catholic elevens.
Piloted Champion War Eleven.
DOrais enlisted in the Officers
Trimming school at Camp Dodge In
January 1913 and he won his COM
mission three months later. After
brief service at Dodge and Pike.
/ Dorais was placed in charge OF ath-
/ letics at Camp Macarthur Waco.
/ Texas. He coached. captained and
/ played quarter back on the McArth-
Iur eleven and the Texas team won
/ the national army championship in
la great game with Camp Pike. Most
Of the credit for the teams sensa-
/ tional showing was attributed to
| the work Of DOrais.
In January 1919. Dorais was hon
[ orably discharged from the army
and was secured TO assist RoCSne
at Notre Dame. His success with
/ the Gold and Blue teams is indis-
! putable. His base ball team a year
] h. . -. g
est nine in the west and this sea-
sons club. despite its lack Of pitch
/ ing talent. has met with remarka bic
success Basketball has bulged to
/ the front as a major sport at NOtre
/ Dame since Dorais was placed at
/ the helm Prospects for "A whirl-
wind five next winter are bright.
| The Notre Dame quintet will meet
! Princeton here early in the season.
No successor to Dorais at Notre
/ Dame has been elected. Rumors
are prevalent that Eddie Maddigan,
center OF the 1919 eleven. will assist
/ Rockne with the football squad. but
nothing definite could he ascertain
ed about the report last night.
| Track Team to Ann Arbor.
! Coach Rockne and his track
squad will leave for Ann Arbor at
10 O'Clock this morning 10 compete
in the western conference track and
I field meet tomorrow. Meehan.
Kasper. Burke. Wynne. Starrett.
Bailey. Hoar. Shaw and Meredith
compose the Notre Dame team.
/ The baseball team Will close its
! season against Purdue tomorrow.
! The game will be played on Cartier
\ field at 3 o'clock The following
/ lineup will start for Notre Dame:
Miles S.: Donovan. II: Fitzgerald.
lib: Mohardt. p; Blievernicht, c.;