By Glen Mason
Special to the New Journal and Guide
NORFOLK, VA - Ernie Fears, Robert “Bob” Smith, Charles Christian, Harvey Heartley, Clarence “Big House” Gaines, Ike Morehead, Moses Golattt, Dave Robbins and Robert “Bob” Moorman. All pioneering and coaching legends of the modern collegiate sports era, especially basketball.
When he left our early plane about a week ago, in my humble world view, it was as if head basketball coach/director of Inter Collegiate Athletics Emeritus, Robert “Bobby” Vaughan, was the last of a self-sacrificing, character building, rare breed of polymaths that turned a small HBCU sports conference into “Fourteen of the Finest.”
I felt honored, and fortunate, that right out of Norfolk Catholic High I was blessed with a job that would allow me, someone the aforementioned Hall of Famers practically raised professionally, witness and write about how they developed young men and women.
Continue reading 1928-2021 Requiem For The Legendary “Boy Coach”: “Bobby” Vaughan at The New Journal and Guide.