Forbes was also the head baseball coach at the University of Vermont for one season in 1898, tallying a mark of 9–7.

[1] During Forbes' single season at the school, he led the Colorado Agricultural team in an infamous Thanksgiving Day game against Wyoming that began the Border War rivalry series.

He was reportedly with a friend in Longmont attending a fire hose team (a group of men who pulled the hose cart to a fire for the local fire department) training drill as a spectator when the team announced they were short by one man.

Forbes volunteered to stand in for the missing man despite not having proper running attire.

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