His father, Charles Doig, Sr., played 209 games for East Fremantle between 1903 and 1921, and later coached the club for one season, in 1940.

[5] The following season, Doig played with East Fremantle's affiliate in the Western Australian National Football Association (WANFA), which acted as a reserve or seconds team for the WANFL club.

In 1935, George kicked 113 goals, followed by Due to the Second World War, 1941 practically marked his retirement from football.

In 1945, at the request of the committee, Doig returned to play eight games; he kicked 23 goals, and helped East Fremantle win the Premiership.

[7] In 1938, the East Fremantle Football Club played a match in Sydney against the New South Wales State team.

A newspaper report on the match referred to George Doig as "the Don Bradman of WANFL football" as he had by then achieved more than 100 goals in six consecutive seasons.

Doig also represented Western Australia on fourteen occasions and kicked 62 goals in interstate matches.

Doig married Margaret Jean Mossman on Saturday, 21 August 1937, at the Old Scots Church in Fremantle.

The 1000th goal itself was reached with what The Sunday Times called a "well judged snap shot", and was followed by "[s]ustained cheering and hand clapping",[13] with the game being "momentarily held up while players rushed to congratulate him".

[14] For the ninth consecutive season, Doig kicked a century of goals, 146 in total, to again lead East Fremantle's goalkicking.

[16] At the conclusion of the 1941 season, the WANFL voted to restrict the competition to players under the age of 18, to allow fit men to enlist in the military.

During this period, Doig, having turned 30 in 1943, was too old to enlist, and continued working at his job with the Harbour and Light Department.

He returned to football in round 14 of the 1945 season, against East Perth at Fremantle Oval, kicking seven goals.

Only once did Doig mark out of easy range and then he was equal to the distance with a long punt from the hospital wing that found the right opening.

The main reason for his success is the speed with which he gets off the mark to give the lead, often from a purposely flat-footed start to trick his opponent.

Whether he moves right, left, or forward Doig has a perfect understanding with his teammates, who, in turn, unselfishly do everything to get the ball to him.At the conclusion of the home-and-away season,[b] East Fremantle finished on top of the ladder, with 16 wins and four losses from their 20 games.

[25] However, several other footballers were also referred to by this term, notably Ken Farmer,[26] another full-forward, and Haydn Bunton, a rover.

Jerry Dolan, who had previously coached Doig, called him "an ornament to the game and an example in every respect", emphasising his position as a role model to "present-day players who had found the going hard".