Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame
Alcorn was a rare three-sport letterman at Chadron State. He came to the college to play football, but weighed just 175 pounds and did not letter as a freshman. He was up to 200 as a sophomore and became a three-year starter at defensive end. He continued to grow and weighed 230 his senior year and earned Nebraska College Conference all-star honors in both 1972 and ’73, when the Eagles yielded just 11 and eight points a game, respectively.
Although Alcorn had played basketball at Hay Springs High School, he wrestled in college and finished his senior season in 1973-74 with a 16-11-1 record and was selected as the Eagles’ outstanding wrestler. He also threw the javelin for the track and field team, something he had never done before. Just before he graduated in ’74, he was honored by the Eagles Booster Club as the college’s Outstanding Senior Athlete.
Much of the time since graduating, Alcorn has raised registered Angus cattle south and west of Hay Springs. His father, the late Gene Alcorn, also played football at CSC and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985. His wife, Lou, is a CSC graduate and a Chadron elementary school principal. Their youngest child, Jeff, was an inside receiver on the CSC football before graduating in 2012.
