University of San Francisco Athletics

Powerful, spirited, and experienced. This is how the 1952 USF baseball nine was described by opposition and scouts alike.The backbone of the team was the left handed hitting array of freshman Joe Arenivar, John Olcese, Eddy Rommell, Len Karp, and Gene Jacobs. Their power helped the Hilltoppers compile one of their finest seasons in recent history. Following them in the batting order were Hal Sandel, Lou Marietta and Dan Moriarity. Excepting for the substituting of Lauren Scola for John Olcese, and Dick Bechelli for Dan Moriarity as Coach Bill Cunningham saw fit, this is what enemy opposition faced during the season (TheDon).

Arnoldy attended Notre Dame grammar school in Marysville, and graduated from Marysville High School in 1951 where he lettered in basketball, football, baseball, excelled in academics and was Student Body President. He received a scholarship to University of San Francisco where he played on the last and undefeated Dons football team of 1951. Arnoldy was a member of Company I ROTC at USF. 

When the USF football program ended, he attended Yuba College where he played on the 1953 Orange Show Bowl Championship Team. He served in the US Army from 1954-1955. He then attended the University of Utah graduating in 1957 with a B.S. in Business Administration. An agent for New York Life Insurance, he owned his own insurance company for over 40 years and was actively involved in real estate development.

An avid athlete he was a longtime member of the Yuba City Raquet Club, the Exchange Club, and the Foothill Gun Club. He was an inductee (1994) and committee member of the Northern California Sportsmans Association, Old Timers' Hall of Fame, New York Life Million Dollar Roundtable, one of the original members of Peach Tree Country Club, and on the board of Rideout Hospital. Arnoldy was inducted into the Yuba College Hall of Fame, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanity from USF for his participation on the Dons football team (AppealDemocrat).