Chris Dorsey was the second of Pittsburgh's five famously athletic and dynamic Dorsey brothers (Jim, Bill, Sparksman, and Mike were the others) who were products of the Smoky City's notorious sandlot playgrounds and whose sports legacy there lasted 70 years. His strength and agility made Dorsey an effective defender at the left guard position, opposite Lewis Dial, the future New York Age newspaper journalist.
Dorsey also played football with the legendary Delaney Rifles and Collins Tigers, fearsome local semi-pro sandlot teams, and for the Lincoln Athletic Club in Chicago, where his teammates included Fritz Pollard, who was an All American from Brown University and later became the NFL's first black quarterback and head coach (Pollard was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006).
