Clem Turner

{{Short description|American football player (1945 – 2009)}}

{{distinguish|Clem Turner (baseball)}}

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{{Infobox gridiron football person

| name = Clem Turner

| image = Clem Turner.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|5|28}}

| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|12|20|1945|5|28}}

| death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

| team =

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| position1 = Running back

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| college = University of Cincinnati

| playing_years1 = 1967

| playing_team1 = Toronto Rifles

| playing_years2 = 1967

| playing_team2 = Hamilton Tiger-Cats

| playing_years3 = 1969

| playing_team3 = Cincinnati Bengals

| playing_years4 = 1970–1972

| playing_team4 = Denver Broncos

| playing_years5 = 1974

| playing_team5 = Portland Storm

| playing_years6 = 1974

| playing_team6 = The Hawaiians

| career_highlights =

• Grey Cup champion ({{CFL Year|1967}})

}}

Clem Turner (May 28, 1945 – December 20, 2009) was a professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos.{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TurnCl00.htm |title=Clem Turner |work=Players |publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=July 28, 2012}} He also wrestled professionally in the Midwest, most often in Indianapolis and Detroit, between 1972 and 1975. He died on December 20, 2009, in a car accident.{{cite web |last1=Oliver |first1=Greg |title=Clem Turner, football player/wrestler, dies in car accident |url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2009/12/21/12228766.html |website=slam.canoe.com |publisher=SLAM! Sports |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310151235/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2009/12/21/12228766.html|archive-date=March 10, 2016 |date=December 21, 2009 |url-status=dead}}

Turner was a running back at Woodward High School, and attended the University of Cincinnati, where he was also a running back. Turner played one season with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in 1967, the year they won the Grey Cup.{{Cite web|url=http://www.htcaa.ca/history-rosters.asp?roster=HAM|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010011339/http://www.htcaa.ca/history-rosters.asp?roster=HAM|url-status=dead|title=Hamilton Tiger-Cats Alumni Association|archive-date=October 10, 2015|website=www.htcaa.ca}} In the 1969 NFL season, Turner played for the Cincinnati Bengals, and from 1970 to 1972, he played for the Denver Broncos. In 1973, the Buffalo Bills acquired him, where he failed the physical. He then went on to play in the World Football League for the Portland Storm and The Hawaiians.

In 1972, Turner started in professional wrestling during the football off-season, working in locations like Indianapolis and Detroit. Turner wrestled at least until 1975.

Turner died in 2009 at the scene of a two-vehicle collision in Cincinnati. He was 64.