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Walter K. Chorn

Walter K. Chorn
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionGuard
ClassGraduate
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.
Weight170 lb (77 kg)
Career history
CollegeVanderbilt (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

The 1906 Vanderbilt football team. Chorn is middle row, third from left.

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]

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

  1. ^ a b c d Walter Barlow Stevens (1915). "Walter K. Chorn". Missouri the Center State: 1821-1915. 3: 467.
  2. ^ "Walter Chorn Dies at Kansas City Was Prominent Lawyer". The Chillicothe Constitution. February 27, 1933. p. 10.
  3. ^ "Chorn is Head of the Missouri State". The National Underwriter. Vol. 22. March 7, 1918. p. 9.
  4. ^ Kappa Sigma Fraternity (1921). "Third Mid-West Conclave". Caduceus. 37.
  5. ^ Fuzzy Woodruff. A History of Southern Football 1890-1928. p. 283.
  6. ^ Vanderbilt University (1913). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 13. p. 56.
  7. ^ "Kappa Sigma In the New Football". Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. 21: 368. 1906.

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