Isaac Arnowitz was born in Holland in 1907 and emigrated with his Russian father and Polish mother to the United States in 1920 at the age of 13. He was naturalized in June, 1929 at the age of 22.Â
He attended USF in the class of 1934, was a member of the USF Chess Club, and Psi Chi, and captained the Dons Soccer Team. He played with fellow Hall of Famers Sam Wicklow and Harry Hughes. He was inducted into the USF Hall of Fame in 1969.
The stubborn Gray Fog defense revolved around I. Arnowitz, center-half, who time and time again in spectacular manner stumped the charges of the fast and strong San Mateo forwards, broke up their plays, took the ball away from them, dribbled through their secondary defense, fooled their fullbacks with neat bullet-like passes to the forward line, and did everything required of an annoying and great center-half but throw a bucket at their heads (TheFoghorn).
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