Charles Kaye Vaughan played linebacker for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League for twelve seasons. He was born in America on June 30, 1931, and he passed away on February 5, 2023. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and was given the Outstanding Lineman Award by the CFL in 1956 and 1957.
Vaughan, who was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1978, was one of the few players from the 1950s to appear in TSN’s poll of the best 50 CFL players, coming in at number 41.
In 1960, Vaughan married Quebec alpinist Lucile Wheeler. In 1958, she won the Lou Marsh Trophy after becoming a double world champion in downhill and giant slalom. Wheeler also won a bronze medal in downhill skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics and is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. They lived in Ottawa for a time, where he played football until 1964, before relocating to Knowlton in Quebec’s Eastern Townships in 1967. Jake Vaughan was born in Ottawa in 1963 and went on to play in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts from 1987 to 1988.
He died on February 5, 2023, at the age of 91, at his home in Knowlton.
Kaye Vaughan’s Cause Of Death
Kaye Vaughan, the CFL’s outstanding lineman twice over and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 91. Unfortunately, there is no information available about his cause of death.