Career
He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 1906 to 1907 and at the Virginia Military Institute from 1914 to 1916, compiling a career college football record of 22–18–4. Gorton was also the head basketball coach at Rutgers from 1906 to 1909, at Virginia Military Institute from 1914 to 1917, and at Otterbein College during the 1917-1918 season, amassing a career college basketball mark of 33–31. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rutgers in 1907.
Gorton died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.
