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Alan Corey Jr. attended the Aiken School in [[Aiken, South Carolina]] in the 1930s, where he started playing polo.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He graduated from [[Yale University]], where he won the Polo Intercollegiate Championship in 1938.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
Alan Corey Jr. attended the Aiken School in [[Aiken, South Carolina]] in the 1930s, where he started playing polo.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He graduated from [[Yale University]], where he won the Polo Intercollegiate Championship in 1938.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
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As a professional player, he was distinguished as a nine goal handicap in 1953 and maintained a rating of seven goals or more for the next thirty years.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He won the United States Open Championship in 1940, 1941, 1950, 1953 and 1954.<ref>[http://www.hurlinghammedia.com/tournaments_US_Opencupwinners.php Hurlingham Media]</ref> He also won the [[Monty Waterbury Cup]] five times, and the National Twenty Goal four times.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He also won National Twelve Goal Tournament in 1963 with his son Alan, and reached the finals of the National Sixteen Goal with his younger son, Russell, in 1969.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
As a professional player, he was distinguished as a nine goal handicap in 1953 and maintained a rating of seven goals or more for the next thirty years.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He won the United States Open Championship in 1940, 1941, 1950, 1953 and 1954.<ref>[http://www.hurlinghammedia.com/tournaments_US_Opencupwinners.php Hurlingham Media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321190945/http://www.hurlinghammedia.com/tournaments_US_Opencupwinners.php |date=2014-03-21 }}</ref> He also won the [[Monty Waterbury Cup]] five times, and the National Twenty Goal four times.<ref name="polomuseum"/> He also won National Twelve Goal Tournament in 1963 with his son Alan, and reached the finals of the National Sixteen Goal with his younger son, Russell, in 1969.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
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He was an active member of the [[United States Polo Association]] (USPA), the [[Meadow Brook Polo Club]], the [[Aiken Polo Club]], the Piping Rock Club and the New York Racquet & Tennis Club.<ref name="polomuseum"/><ref name="nytimes"/> He was inducted into the [[Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame]] on March 20, 1992.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
He was an active member of the [[United States Polo Association]] (USPA), the [[Meadow Brook Polo Club]], the [[Aiken Polo Club]], the Piping Rock Club and the New York Racquet & Tennis Club.<ref name="polomuseum"/><ref name="nytimes"/> He was inducted into the [[Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame]] on March 20, 1992.<ref name="polomuseum"/> |
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Alan Lyle Corey Jr. was an American polo player.[1][2]
Biography
Alan Corey Jr. attended the Aiken School in Aiken, South Carolina in the 1930s, where he started playing polo.[1] He graduated from Yale University, where he won the Polo Intercollegiate Championship in 1938.[1]
As a professional player, he was distinguished as a nine goal handicap in 1953 and maintained a rating of seven goals or more for the next thirty years.[1] He won the United States Open Championship in 1940, 1941, 1950, 1953 and 1954.[3] He also won the Monty Waterbury Cup five times, and the National Twenty Goal four times.[1] He also won National Twelve Goal Tournament in 1963 with his son Alan, and reached the finals of the National Sixteen Goal with his younger son, Russell, in 1969.[1]
He was an active member of the United States Polo Association (USPA), the Meadow Brook Polo Club, the Aiken Polo Club, the Piping Rock Club and the New York Racquet & Tennis Club.[1][2] He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame on March 20, 1992.[1]
He was married to Patricia Grace, and they had one daughter, Patricia Corey Montgomerie, and two sons, Alan L. Corey III and Russell G. Corey.[2] He died on August 24, 1998.[2] His wife died on January 13, 2007.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, Alan Corey Jr.'s biography
- ^ a b c d Paid Notice: Deaths COREY, ALAN LYLE, The New York Times, August 25, 1998
- ^ Hurlingham Media Archived 2014-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Paid Notice: Deaths COREY, PATRICIA GRACE, The New York Times, January 17, 2007