Cory was call up by the Detroit Lions as an unpaid agent. He completed his schooling from All-American at Hutchinson (Minn.) High School. In his eventual two years in the school he completed 175-of-330 passes for 2,414 yards and 14 touchdowns. As a senior he escorted his squad to the section 4A title. He is also a three-time letter subjugator in baseball playing third base. 30 years old Cory has to its credit University of Minnesota career records with 539 pass completions for 6,834 yards and 40 touchdowns. During Minnesota annuals in 1984-87 he was only one step behind quarterback Rickey Foggie (7,312 total yards) with scores of 6,608 yards total offense. For quartet of times he was the preference of all-Big 10 Conference academic team. He also added a feather to his cap by winning GTE/CoSIDA academic all-district V team. He completed 200 of 352 passes (56.8 percent) for 2,578 and 14 touchdowns. He earned Big Ten offensive player-of-the-week honors for interweaving 23 of 27 attempts for 285 yards with two touchdowns and dashed for a game-winning one-yard score with merely 46 seconds left in a 23-21 decision over Illinois.