{{Short description|American football player (born 1932)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox NFL biography | image = | position = Guard | number = 65 | birth_date = October 26, 1932 | birth_place = Wolf Lake, Illinois, U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 0 | weight_lb = 217 | high_school = Washington (Massillon, Ohio) | college = Miami<br>Purdue | draftyear = 1955 | draftround = 26 | draftpick = 303 | teams = * Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1955}}) | statlabel1 = Games played | statvalue1 = 10 | statlabel2 = | statvalue2 = | statlabel3 = | statvalue3 = | pfr = HousWa21 |death_date={{death date and age|2024|1|24|1932|10|26}}}} '''Loren Walter Houston''' (October 26, 1932-January 24, 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Home |first=Stroud~Lawrence Funeral |title=Obituary for Loren Walter Houston {{!}} Stroud~Lawrence Funeral Home |url=https://www.stroudlawrence.com/obituary/Loren-Houston |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240301172425/https://www.stroudlawrence.com/obituary/Loren-Houston |archive-date=2024-03-01 |access-date=2025-12-04 |website=Obituary for Loren Walter Houston {{!}} Stroud~Lawrence Funeral Home |language=en}}</ref> is an American former professional football player who was a guard for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL).<ref>{{cite web |title=Walt Houston, OG at NFL.com |url=http://www.nfl.com/player/walthouston/2516861/profile |website=NFL.com |accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref> He graduated from Massillon Washington High School after twice being on Ohio-state championship teams. His senior-year team in 1950, quarterbacked by classmate Don James, was rated the No. 1 high school team in the United States. Houston went on to play college football for the Miami Hurricanes and Purdue Boilermakers. He was selected in 26th round of the 1955 NFL draft.<ref>{{cite web |title=Walt Houston Stats |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HousWa21.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref>
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