Clarence Vaughn
 Vaughn as coach with the Washington Redskins preseason game. | |||||||
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| Position: | Safety | ||||||
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| Born: | July 17, 1964 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||
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| High school: | Chicago (IL) Gage Park | ||||||
| College: | Northern Illinois | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 1987 / Round: 8 / Pick: 219 | ||||||
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Clarence Vaughn (born July 17, 1964) is a former
Washington Redskins
.
High school years
In high school, at Gage Park in Chicago, Vaughn played football, basketball and baseball. He was All-State honorable mention and a three-year football letterman starting on both sides of the ball as a running back and a linebacker.
College career
Vaughn played
CSUF. Vaughn played under three head coaches at Northern Illinois University, Bill Mallory, Lee Corso and Jerry Pettibone. In 1995, he was inducted into the NIU Hall of Fame for the 1983 football team.[1]
He received his B.A. Degree in Criminal Justice and minored in Business Administration.
Professional career
Vaughn was
Wade Wilson. They then went on to win Super Bowl XXII against the Denver Broncos. He won his second Super Bowl in 1992 against the Buffalo Bills, Super Bowl XXVI. Vaughn was the first NIU player to play in a Super Bowl, and is still the only NIU player to win two Super Bowls.[3]
After football
Vaughn currently runs a youth and young adult football training camp called Get NFL Ready and was Assistant Coach at
Redskins, Vaughn studied the defensive plays, helped manage the sideline reps and helped manage game day performance of the defensive players. Vaughn coached his third season in 2009 at Bluffton University as a defensive assistant under the NFLPA/NCAA program for retired players. In 2007-08, in Colorado, he was an assistant football coach in charge of the middle linebackers for Rampart High School. He was the fourth Super Bowl vet ever to coach high school in Colorado (John Elway with Cherry Creek, Louis Wright with Rangeview and Rick Upchurch
with Pueblo East are the other three). Vaughn is married to his wife, Brooke, and resides in Northern Virginia with their kids.
References
- ^ "NIU Hall of Fame" Archived 2009-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, NIUhuskies.com
- ^ "1987 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
- ^ Vaughn "NIU 50 Greatest Players" Archived 2016-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, NIUhuskies.com
External links
- Clarence Vaughn regular season stats
- Clarence Vaughn Website
- get NFL Ready with Clarence Vaughn
- Redskins Alumni Network created by Clarence Vaughn