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{{Short description|American polo player}}
'''Alan Lyle Corey Jr.''' (February 6, 1917 - August 24, 1998) was an American [[polo]] player.<ref name="polomuseum">{{cite web |url=http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/corey_alan.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021219195409/http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/corey_alan.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-12-19 |title=Alan Lyle Corey Jr. |date= |accessdate=2017-11-02 |quote= |publisher= }}</ref><ref name="nytimes">[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-corey-alan-lyle.html Alan Lyle Corey], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 25, 1998</ref>
==Biography==
He was born on February 6, 1917, in [[Manhattan, New York City]].
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"/>
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"/>
He was an active member of the [[United States Polo Association]] (USPA), the [[Meadowbrook Polo Club]], the [[Aiken Polo Club]], the [[Piping Rock Club]] and the [[Racquet and 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 married to Patricia Grace, and they had one daughter, Patricia Corey Montgomerie, and two sons, Alan L. Corey III and Russell G. Corey.<ref name="nytimes"/>
He died on August 24, 1998.<ref name="nytimes"/> His wife died on January 13, 2007.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E0DE1F3AF934A25752C0A9619C8B63 Patricia Grace Corey], ''The New York Times'', January 17, 2007</ref>
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