Steamer Horning
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| Position: | Tackle | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | November 15, 1892 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Phoenix, New York | ||||||||
| Date of death: | January 24, 1982 (aged 89) | ||||||||
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| College: | Colgate | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 36 |
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| Games started: | 30 |
| Touchdowns: | 2 |
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Clarence Edward "Steamer" Horning (November 15, 1892 – January 24, 1982) was an American football player in the 1910s and 1920s. He played college football for the Colgate Raiders and was selected in 1916 as a first-team All-American at the tackle position. He also played professional football in the Ohio State League in 1917 and 1919 and in the National Football League (NFL) from 1920 to 1923. He was selected as a first-team All-NFL player in both 1922 and 1923.
Horning was born in 1892 in Phoenix, New York. His parents, Wilburt (or William) and Amelia Horning, were both New York natives. In 1900, the family lived in Phoenix, and Horning's father was described as a "paper machine tender". By 1910, the family had moved to Wheatland, New York, where Horning's father worked as a fireman in another paper mill.
Horning played college football for the Colgate Raiders from 1913 to 1916. In December 1915, he was selected as the captain of the 1916 Colgate team. After the 1916 season, Walter Camp, writing in Collier's Weekly, selected Horning as a first-team All-American at the tackle position.
In early 1917, Horning was signed by Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Pirates to play professional baseball, In a draft registration card completed in June 1917, Horning described himself as a baseball player under contract to play for the Pittsbugh National League baseball club. However, it appears from the records of Baseball-Reference.com that he never played at the professional level.
In the fall of 1917, Horning began his professional football career playing for the Detroit Heralds, a professional team that competed against teams in Michigan and in the Ohio League. However, his first stint in professional football was interrupted by military service during World War I. Horning was inducted into the military at Fort Niagara, New York, at the end of November 1917.
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