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Clarence Edward "Steamer" Horning (November 15, 1892January 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.
In 1919, Horning was hired as the assistant coach responsible for the linemen on the University of Detroit football team. He also played for the Detroit Heralds during the 1919 season.
In September 1920, the NFL (called the American Professional Football Association during the 1920 and 1921 seasons) was founded at a meeting in the Hupmobile auto showroom of the owner of the Canton Bulldogs. In the inaugural season of the NFL, Horning played for the 1920 Detroit Heralds. The Heralds opened the 1920 season with a game against the Cleveland Panthers, played at Navin Field on October 10, 1920. The Heralds won by a 40–14 score, and Horning, playing at the right tackle position, also handled kicking for the club and converted on four goals after touchdown for Detroit. Horning's four conversions were the first special team points scored by a Detroit NFL team.
Horning played a total of four seasons in the NFL. After the 1920 season, he played for the Detroit Tigers (1921). When the Tigers folded, Horning was among the players loaned to the Buffalo All-Americans to finish out their season; he scored the All-Americans' only touchdown on a blocked punt return in the de facto championship game that year, falling on the ball in the end zone after the block. The touchdown was one of two Horning, a lineman, scored during his NFL career. Horning spent the 1922 and 1923 seasons with the Toledo Maroons, where he was selected as a first-team All-NFL player by the Canton Daily News in both seasons.
In 1940, Horning was living with his wife, Georgianna, and daughter, Betty June, in Royal Oak, Michigan, and was employed as a school teacher.1940 U.S. Census entry for Clarence E. Horning, age 48, born in New York. Census Place: Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan; Roll: T627_1802; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 63–139. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census database. Two years later, he was employed at the high school located at the corner of Glendale and 2nd in Highland Park, Michigan.World War II draft registration card for Clarence E. Horning, born November 15, 1894 sic at Phoenix, NY. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 database.
In his later years, Horning lived in Beverly Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He died there in 1982 at age 89.death record for Clarence E Horning, 15 Nov 1892 – 24 Jan 1982. Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records. Michigan, Deaths, 1971–1996 database.
Later years
In 1921, Horning became the coach for the University of Detroit High School football team.
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