He attended college at Cornell University, where he continued his football career as an end under head coach Glenn "Pop" Warner from 1904 to 1906.
[2][3] Van Orman was expelled from the university in March 1906 by the student conduct committee for allegedly "cribbing" during a veterinary surgery examination.
[4][5] He remained in that position until 1920, when he left to become head football coach and athletic director at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
The contraption was a large wooden triangular frame from which dummies filled with sand or sawdust were arranged in the formation used by the opposing team.
[9] In 1935, the Johns Hopkins University administration began a policy to "de-emphasize" football,[10] and Van Orman left to coach the highly successful amateur Mount Washington Lacrosse Club.