Walter K. Chorn

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]

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

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. 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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