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Richard Arnoldy

  • Class
    1955
  • Honors
    Baseball (1952-1953)
USF could have its best double-play combination in years. The four infielders played winter ball in the San Francisco Recreation League. The outer pastures will be roamed by Dick Arnoldy, Joe Arenivar and either Bob Castagnetto or Les Grimes. Arenivar, the Pittsburgh Flash, looms as the outstanding slugger on the team. For many weeks last season, he led the team in hitting. In practice sessions, Arnoldy has been rapping the ball with authority (TheFoghorn).


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. 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 U.S. 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).

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