Walter K. Chorn
![]() | |
Vanderbilt Commodores | |
---|---|
Position | Guard |
Class | Graduate |
Personal information | |
Born: | (1885-01-21)January 21, 1885 Howard County, Missouri, U.S. |
Died: | February 26, 1933(1933-02-26) (aged 48) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
Career history | |
College | Vanderbilt (1906) |
Career highlights and awards | |
|
Walter Knaus Chorn (January 21, 1885 – February 26, 1933)[1][2] was an American college football player and coach, lawyer, and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.[3]
University
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/1906Vandy.jpg/200px-1906Vandy.jpg)
Chorn attended Central College in Fayette, Missouri and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] He graduated from the latter with an LL.B. Chorn was a guard and tackle for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams, selected All-Southern in 1906,[4][5] and second-team on an all-time Vanderbilt football team selected in 1912.[6] At Vanderbilt he was a member of Kappa Sigma.[7]
Legal career
After graduation, he opened a law office in Fayette, Missouri, practicing for two years. In 1909 he became chief clerk of the commission that revised the Missouri statutes.[1] In 1910 and 1911 he served in the state auditor's office, and in 1913 was chief clerk of the Supreme Court of Missouri.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Walter Barlow Stevens (1915). "Walter K. Chorn". Missouri the Center State: 1821-1915. 3: 467.
- ^ "Walter Chorn Dies at Kansas City Was Prominent Lawyer". The Chillicothe Constitution. February 27, 1933. p. 10.
- ^ "Chorn is Head of the Missouri State". The National Underwriter. Vol. 22. March 7, 1918. p. 9.
- ^ Kappa Sigma Fraternity (1921). "Third Mid-West Conclave". Caduceus. 37.
- ^ Fuzzy Woodruff. A History of Southern Football 1890-1928. p. 283.
- ^ Vanderbilt University (1913). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 13. p. 56.
- ^ "Kappa Sigma In the New Football". Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. 21: 368. 1906.
External links
- Walter K. Chorn at Find a Grave
- v
- t
- e
- Unknown (1903)
- Wynfred E. Allen (1904)
- Taft (1905)
- Dwight Porter (1906)
- Walter K. Chorn (1907)
- Paul St. Clair (1908–1910)
- Donald D. Shira (1911)
- George H. Pritchard (1912–1915)
- Roy Rutledge (1916)
- No team (1917–1920)
- Frank McCain (1921)
- Elmer B. Cottrell (1922)
- Lamar Hoover (1923–1924)
- Pappy Waldorf (1925–1927)
- Vee Green (1928–1932)
- Wesley Fry (1933)
- Stan Williamson (1934)
- Toby Greene (1935–1937)
- Os Doenges (1938–1941)
- No team (1942–1945)
- Bo Rowland (1946–1947)
- Orville Tuttle (1948–1949)