Chadron State College Athletics

A native of Rushville, Peters was a track and football standout at Chadron State in the late 1940s after sports were resumed following World War II. He won the 440 and the mile at the Nebraska College Conference Track and Field Meet in 1946, won the 880 in 1947 and anchored the winning mile relay team in 1948. He also was a starting guard on both offense and defense while playing football in 1945 and  1946. He played nearly every minute of all 10 games in ’46. In 1953, he moved to California, where he taught high school math and science at Coalinga High School for 16 years before spending the rest of his career as a math professor and counselor at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton.