Gus Manolis (February 9, 1923 – January 28, 1958) was an American college football coach.
Manolis came to Chico State after a four-year stint, from 1950 to 1953, as the head football coach at Yuba College in Marysville, California.
During World War II, Manolis served in the United States Army Air Forces and spent two and a half years in the European theatre.
After his discharge from the military in 1946, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949.
[2][3] Manolis died on January 28, 1958, near Alder Springs, California, after suffering an apparent heart attack while helping with the search for a missing boy in Grindstone Canyon in the Mendocino National Forest.