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Vann was a keen footballer who played for amateur teams at Hugglescote United, Irthlingborough, and [[Northampton Town]]. During the 1906/1907 season, he played for [[Burton United F.C.|Burton United]], then a [[Football League|League]] club. He made five appearances that season and then joined [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]], making the first of his three league appearances for the club on 23 March 1907. Later that year, he played for [[Leicester City F.C. Reserves and Academy|Leicester Fosse]], playing in two non-league games for the club.{{sfn|Joyce|2012|p=295}}<ref name="FATFWW">{{Cite web |url=http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/bernard-vann-vc/ |title=Bernard Vann VC|website=Football and the First World War |accessdate=23 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="LCFC">{{Cite news |url=https://www.lcfc.com/news/431269 |title=Leicester Fosse And The First World War: Part 16 |website=Leicester FC|accessdate=23 November 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
From 1907 to 1910, Vann was a student at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], reading History. His brother, [[Arthur Vann|Arthur Harrison Allard Vann]], matriculated at Jesus in 1909, aged 25.<ref name="Jesu">{{cite web |title=Arthur Harrison Allard Vann, Captain and Adjutant, West Yorkshire Regiment |url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/arthur-harrison-allard-vann-captain-and-adjutant-west-yorkshire-regiment |website=Jesus College, Cambridge |accessdate=17 January 2019}}</ref> While at the [[University of Cambridge]], Bernard served in the [[Officers' Training Corps]] as a sergeant.{{sfn|Gliddon|2014|p=71}} During this time, he played for [[Mansfield Town F.C.|Mansfield Wesley]].<ref name="FATFWW"/> In 1910, his final year of studies, he was a hockey [[Blue (university sport)|blue]] for the university.
After graduation, Vann taught at [[Ashby School|Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School]] in Leicestershire but then decided on a career in the priesthood. He was ordained a [[deacon]] in October 1910 and licensed as a [[curate]] at St Barnabas' Church in the New Humberstone suburb of [[Leicester]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Ordinations |work=Stamford Mercury |date=7 October 1910 |page=6}}</ref> and then at [[St Saviour's Church, Leicester]]. By now an ordained [[priest]], in early 1913 he became chaplain and assistant master at [[Wellingborough School]].{{sfn|Gliddon|2014|p=71}}
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