Alan L. Corey Jr.

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, Alan Corey Jr.'s biography
  2. 1 2 3 4 Paid Notice: Deaths COREY, ALAN LYLE, The New York Times, August 25, 1998
  3. ↑ Hurlingham Media
  4. ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths COREY, PATRICIA GRACE, The New York Times, January 17, 2007
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