Cleveland reached the league championship game in each of Houston eight seasons with the club, winning four times between 1946 and 1949 in the AAFC and once in the NFL in 1950.

[2] Houston sat out for two weeks with a knee injury but returned to finish the season, and in 1942 became a regular starter at right guard.

[3] Collier's named him an All-American that season, when the Ohio State Buckeyes football team won the school's first national championship.

[9] In later seasons, Houston rotated with Bob Gaudio as part of a system where Brown used guard substitutions to relay plays to his quarterback.

[12] Houston's job was to protect quarterback Otto Graham and open up running room for fullback Marion Motley.

[14] Despite his reputation for durability, Houston suffered from numerous injuries during his career and announced he would retire after the 1952 season.

He died of cancer in 1995 and was inducted into the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame in 2008.