Gus Cohrs established a coaching standard at Grand Haven High School that may never be equaled.  His basketball teams were 242-84 (.742) from 1922 to 1939, including seven state championships.  In football, the Buccaneers were 51-42 from 1922 to 1933 against a schedule of higher class A schools and claimed the mythical Class B state crown in 1922 and 1926.  He also coached track and baseball along with his teaching duties during his long tenure from 1922 to 1958.
Cohrs was a fine all-around athlete at Muskegon High School from 1907 to 1910, where his skills were developed under the great Bob Zuppke.  In football, he began as a bruising lineman but was converted to fullback by Coach Zuppke, where he earned all-state honors.  He also was varsity center on the Big Red basketball team and was a key member of the track team.  After graduation, he remained with the Big Reds as an assistant coach for six years before accepting a head coaching assignment in McKeesport, PA.  He returned to Michigan in 1920 to coach at Stambaugh in the Upper Peninsula where he won U.P. championships in both football and basketball.  Grand Haven recruited him back to West Michigan in 1922 in a teaching and head-coaching role.
At age 30, he quickly brought Grand Haven a mythical Class B football championship in his first year (1922) and two years later he guided the Bucs to a Class B state basketball title.  He almost returned to his alma mater, Muskegon High, in 1925 to replace the late J. Francis Jacks – but chose to remain in Grand Haven (C. Leo Redmond was eventually selected for the Big Red position).  His 1931 Buccaneer cage squad made Michigan sports history by becoming the only Class B school to win the state Class A basketball championship.