Herbert Walt Steinohrt was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s as a front row forward for the Australian national team. He played in 9 Tests between 1928 and 1932 as captain on 3 occasions. He has been widely regarded as one of the greatest forwards in rugby league history.

Steinohrt was born in Pittsworth, Queensland in 1899, but was of German descent. As a child he was very sporty, having played rugby union, Australian football, cricket, golf, tennis and when he turned 19 switched to rugby league. He had to ride 39 km on a horse to play for Warra on bad quality fields. Later Steinohrt moved to Toowoomba because he was invited to play in the Toowoomba Rugby League (TRL), to play for the Toowoomba Clydesdales, while working for a local sawmill. He was incredibly loyal to the Clydesdales and was a versatile player having originally played as centre or wing, before switching to the forwards as prop, but could also play second-row or lock.

A raw-boned Herb Steinohrt grew into one of champion forwards of the 1920s and 1930s. He was renowned for his hardness and great strength. A prop and second-rower, he came to Toowoomba in 1922 and represented the city 125 times during the legendary era of the ''Galloping Clydesdales''.

Steinohrt was a member of the 1924-25 world class Toowoomba side that beat all comers including Sydney premiers Souths, Brisbane, Ipswich and representative sides including New South Wales, Victoria, Great Britain and New Zealand. He also played for Queensland continually from 1925 to 1933, and for Australia 31 times, including nine Tests.

Although he did not first represent his State till age 26, from 1925 to 1933 he had an uninterrupted run as a Queensland Maroon representative, setting the then record of playing 30 consecutive interstate matches. In 1931 and 1932 he captained Queensland to series victories over NSW. In 1933 he was part of a Queensland squad that included the entire Toowoomba representative team and Steinhort lead a "Clydesdales XIII" against NSW. His brother Arch was also part of this team

Steinohrt was a key figure in the Queensland teams that dominated NSW in the 1920s, was an automatic selection for three straight Test series, in 1928, 1929–30 and 1932, and he had the honour of leading Australia in all three Tests against England in 1932. One of those Tests in 1932 was the infamous ''Battle of Brisbane'', a game that Australia won heroically despite a number of players, including hooker Dan Dempsey and lock Frank O'Connor, being badly injured. At the final whistle, the crowd carried captain Steinohrt from the field in triumph.

He retired from representative football in 1932 but continued playing for Valleys and Toowoomba until 1936 including a match for the Clydesdales against the touring 1936 Lions where Toowoomba were narrowly beaten 10–8. He coached Toowoomba and various Queensland representative sides into the 1970s and was a selector for the Australian test team in 1946. A champion player and a man who worked for rugby league throughout his life (he was still a coach and administrator at 75), Steinohrt remains a revered figure in the story of Queensland sport, tagged an ''Immortal'' in a tribute by long-time QRL President Ron McAuliffe.

Those who played with him were rich in their praise. Duncan Thompson claimed that ''he had stamina and strength, and the football brain to go with it'', while Mick Madsen, Steinohrt's famous forward partner of many battles, remembered him as ''one of the great tacticians of the game''