Career
Gauss was raised in Ontario following a short stay in Montreal and Winnipeg. On 31 October 2009 Gauss lost a three-year battle with brain cancer after being diagnosed with the disease, and undergoing a 12 hour operation, a week before Christmas in 2006. The Canadian Soccer League honoured him by establishing The Harry Paul Gauss Award for the person within the league who in the season past demonstrated ‘exemplary support, commitment and allegiance’.