Vaughan was an all-star 10 times, and TSN once ranked him at No. 41 of Canadian football’s Top 50 players, most of whom were quarterbacks, running backs and pass receivers
The only points Kaye Vaughan ever scored in two decades as a football player came during the biggest game of his career.
“It was a great thrill scoring,” Mr. Vaughan said after the game. “I didn’t jump up and down, but I sure was happy.” The championship capped a remarkable year for the lineman, who had in June married Lucile Wheeler, an Olympic bronze medalist and two-time world champion in alpine skiing. Photographs of their celebrity wedding were carried in newspapers across Canada and even in the United States.
“They didn’t offer any money and I only weighed 218 pounds , which wasn’t enough,” he told The Globe in 1987. Lucile Wheeler Vaughan and husband Kaye Vaughan, footballer, shown with their first child, Myrle Aniese, in March 1961.In a 12-year span, Mr. Vaughan was named an all-star 10 times, six times on offence and four times on defence .
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