Early Years
Steiner was born in 1897 in Massachusetts. His father, Albert Steiner, was a German immigrant and a carpenter. By the time of the 1910 U.S. Census, Steiner was living with his parents in Brooklyn.
In September 1918, Steiner was living in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He studied for a year at Syracuse University where he was captain of the freshman football team. He then enrolled as a student at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (later known as Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1918 to 1919.
After serving in the United States Army during World War I, Steiner studied for two years at the Normal College of Physical Education in Indianapolis. He was captain of the basketball team and a member of the track team at the Normal College. While in Indianapolis, Steiner also coached the track teams of Butler College and the Athenaeum Athletic Club, a German-American athletic society in Indianapolis. He also played minor league baseball.
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