Two-way standout at San Diego High before joining Aztecs played in NFL after college, but biggest impact was mentoring youth at Mountain View Park
Neal Petties earned most of his acclaim on the football field as a standout defensive back.Petties, 82, died on June 1 in National City. Anthony Petties said his father died of natural causes.Neal Petties will long be remembered for his feats on the football field and his contributions to the community off it.
According to the San Diego Union, “Korsmeier lofted a high hard one that speeding Petties took, on the dead run, behind two Diablo defenders on the enemy 10-yard stripe.In SDSU’s home opener a week later, Petties thrilled the crowd of 9,000 at Aztec Bowl with the game-winning touchdown in the final minute of a 9-6 victory over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Petties earned all-American honors at San Diego High, San Diego City College and SDSU, highlighted as a senior when he was a first-team UPI Little all-American and third-team AP all-American. “He was a hero to a lot of guys,” Anthony Petties said, “who got a chance to see him play for San Diego State, go to the NFL and then come back and implement all kinds of things in the community for them and their kids and their kids’ kids.”
“They didn’t have a lot of funds back then for things,” Anthony Petties said, “so he would organize camping trips and take kids to the beach. There were trips for kids who maybe never got a chance to go to Disneyland, Magic Mountain or Knott’s Berry Farm.
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