GREENSBORO, N.C. - Lenoir-Rhyne Athletics mourns the passing of former football head coach Charles Forbes. 

Forbes led the Bears from 1991-1996. His 1994 team won the South Atlantic Conference championship and Forbes was named SAC Coach of the Year, the second coach in program history to earn that award. Prior to his time with the Bears, Forbes became the all-time winningest and longest-tenured head coach in Guilford College's history, earning him the 1984 NAIA District Coach of the Year and induction to the Guilford College Hall of Fame in 1987. 

Charles graduated from Robersonville High School and attended East Carolina University, where he was a tailback for the Pirates football team, playing in the 1965 Tangerine Bowl. In 1968, he was drafted into the US Army, attending Officer Candidate School before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and serving as Jump Master for the 82nd Airborne Division. Among other military honors, Charles was awarded the Bronze Star for heroic service on the battlefields of Vietnam, before being honorably discharged at the rank of First Lieutenant.

Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., November 8th, at Guilford College United Methodist Church in Greensboro.