Who Was Kaye Vaughan?
Charles Kaye Vaughan was a Canadian professional football lineman who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League for twelve seasons. Vaughan was a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and received the CFL’s Outstanding Lineman Award in 1956 and 1957.
Vaughan was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1978, and in a poll conducted by Canadian sports network TSN, Vaughan was ranked 41st among the CFL’s top 50 players, one of only a few players from the 1950s to be included.
In 1960, Vaughan married Quebec alpine ski racer Lucile Wheeler. In 1958, Vaughan won the Lou Marsh Trophy as a double world champion in downhill and giant slalom. Wheeler was also a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and won a bronze medal in downhill skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. They lived in Ottawa for a time, where Vaughan played football until 1964, before moving to Knowlton in Quebec’s Eastern Townships in 1967. Jake Vaughan was born in Ottawa in 1963 and played in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts from 1987 to 1988.