Class Graduate Positions Guard Name Walter Chorn | Weight 170 lb (77 kg) | |
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Date of birth (1885-01-21)January 21, 1885 Place of birth Howard County, Missouri Date of death February 26, 1933(1933-02-26) (aged 48) Died February 26, 1933, Kansas City, Missouri, United States College Vanderbilt Commodores football (1906) | ||
Place of death Kansas City, Missouri | ||
Walter Knaus Chorn (January 21, 1885 – February 26, 1933) was a college football player, lawyer, and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.
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University
Chorn attended Central College in Fayette, Missouri and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. 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, and second-team on an all-time Vanderbilt football team selected in 1912. At Vanderbilt he was a member of Kappa Sigma.
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. In 1910 and 1911 he served in the state auditor's office, and in 1913 was chief clerk of the supreme court of Missouri.