Induction: Sport:

2024 Football

H.C. “Joby” Hawn was the Head Football Coach at R.J. Reynolds High School from 1930-1947. As coach, Joby Hawn took the team to the Western Conference Championship. After RJR, Hawn served as Recreational Director for P. H. Hanes Knitting Company from 1947 to 1962. He was also an outstanding local high school official in basketball and baseball.  He served as head official for the Frank Spencer Classic for ten years, which is held at R.J. Reynolds. In 1983, Governor Hunt awarded Mr. Hawn the Order of the Long Leaf Pine as a result of his distinction as a YMCA Volunteer and Senior of the year for Forsyth County.  Later he officiated for the Southern Conference and the ACC as well as in the Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Gator Bowl.  Coach Hawn was the first full-time commissioner of the Carolina Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1962-1976.  The Conference now has the Joby Hawn Cup, which is an award given each year to the team with the most points. Hawn also has been inducted into the Lenoir Rhyne University Sports Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. H.C. “Joby” Hawn passed away on July 27, 1986.