Date of birth | July 7, 1898 |
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Place of birth | Chicago |
Date of death | August 5, 1985 | (aged 87)
Place of death | Chicago |
Career information | |
Position(s) | Fullback, halfback, quarterback |
Height | 5 ft 11.5 in (182 cm) |
Weight | 206 lb (93 kg) |
College | Harvard |
High school | Francis W. Parker |
Career history | |
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1923–1924 | Chicago Cardinals |
1926–1930 | Harvard |
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1921 | Racine Cardinals |
1921–1924 | Chicago Cardinals |
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Military career | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | U.S. Navy |
Years of service | 1917–19 |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Battles/wars | World War I |
Arnold "Arnie" Horween (originally Arnold Horwitz; also known as A. McMahon; July 7, 1898 – August 5, 1985) was a college and professional American football player and coach. He played and coached both for Harvard University and in the National Football League (NFL).
Horween played left halfback, right halfback, fullback, and center for the unbeaten Harvard Crimson football teams of 1919, which won the 1920 Rose Bowl, and 1920. He was voted an All-American.
Horween also played four seasons in the NFL, as a fullback, halfback, and blocking back (quarterback) for the Racine Cardinals and the Chicago Cardinals. He was a player-coach for the Cardinals. Later, he was Harvard's head football coach, from 1925 to 1930.
His brother Ralph Horween was also an All-American football player for Harvard, and also played and coached in the NFL for the Cardinals. They were the last Jewish brothers to play in the NFL until Geoff Schwartz and Mitchell Schwartz, in the 2000s. After retiring from football, Horween and his brother inherited and ran the family leather tannery business, Horween Leather Company.
Horween's parents, Isidore and Rose (Rabinoff), immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1892. During his youth the family changed its name to Horween from its original name, which was either Horwitz or Horowitz.