Vanderbilt Commodores | |
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Position | Guard |
Class | Graduate |
Personal information | |
Born: | Howard County, Missouri, U.S. | January 21, 1885
Died: | February 26, 1933 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | (aged 48)
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
Career history | |
College | Vanderbilt (1906) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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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]
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]