In 1912, Van Orman returned to his alma mater to serve on the
Cornell football staff under head coach
A. H. Sharpe. 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. Van Orman worked in those roles through 1935. As a head football coach, he compiled a 60–64–7 record. Despite never having seen a game of
lacrosse before, he became the coach of the
Johns Hopkins team in 1926. During his tenure as Hopkins lacrosse coach from 1926 to 1934, Van Orman's teams amassed a 71–11 record and captured six national championships. In 1935, the Johns Hopkins University administration began a policy to "de-emphasize" football, and Van Orman left to coach the highly successful amateur
Mount Washington Lacrosse Club. but that ultimately fell through. The following year, he returned to Cornell as an assistant football coach. Van Orman died of a heart attack on May 24, 1954, in
Ithaca, New York, at the age of 71. The Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously inducted him in 1982. He was inducted into the
National Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a player in 1992. ==References==