Émile Dusart

Together with his brother André, he took out a license with his hometown club RC Roubaix in the early 1910s, but only became a regular in the club's first team during the 1913–14 season, aged 17, where he formed a great wing with Raymond Dubly. He made up for his frail build and small height of 1.66 meters with his technique, being selected by the Northern team to play a friendly against a selection of Normandy in April 1914. The following month, on 31 May 1914, the 17-year-old Dusart earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly against Hungary at Budapest, which ended in a 5–1 loss. In doing so, he became the fourth-ever RC Roubaix players to represent the French national team, after Émile Sartorius, Maurice Vandendriessche, and Dubly.

Émile Dusart was born on 2 August 1896 in Roubaix, as the eldest of four sons from Emile Joseph, plasterer-ceiling worker born in Belgium, but of French nationality. He grew up in Roubaix, where he attended all his schooling and passed his revision board.

In the following year, in June 1919, his former club Roubaix held a mass in the Saint-Martin church in honor of the Roubaix members who died at the front, including Dusart. He was posthumously awarded the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Like so many other French internationals from the early 20th century, Dusart was the victim of mistakes by historians, being initially confused with a certain Emile Désiré Dusart, born in Ardennes on 3 September 1892, and who died on 13 March 1919, an error that persisted until the 21st century,