Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

In 1964, Pete Archibald signed a free-agent contract with the National Football League San Francisco 49ers, making him the first IUP football standout to do so within pro football and the NFL as they are presently organized.
 
Preceding the accomplishment were many others, as well as intangibles, that prompted the invitation. Most
Obvious was Archibald's aptitude for intercepting passes.
 
Credited with 17 in his 1961-63 career, he pulled in nine his junior season ('62), including four in a single game, against Juniata in the first IUP Homecoming game ever played at George P. Miller Stadium. He returned his thefts as far as 50 yards.
 
The reputation Archibald took from IUP-neighboring county Greensburg-Salem High School to The Citadel in South Carolina in 1960 had not been for stealing passes but for catching them, as a first-rate receiver. After a year, he decided to return home.
 
Signing on with Coach Sam Smith at IUP, and then playing for Coach Chuck Mills as a junior and senior when IUP posted a 12-3-2 record, he continued to catch passes but also carried the ball, ran back punts and was the Indians' placekicker.
 
All this brought Archibald selections to both the 1962 and 1963 All-Pennsylvania teams, picked by the AP/Associated Press as the best among both major and "small-college" players, and a 1963 All-American honorable mention.
 
After football stints with the Wheeling Ironmen (nine season interceptions) and Atlantic City Senators (affiliated with the Philadelphia Eagles), he completed a degree in special education.
 
His professional resume includes ownership, with his sons, of a homebuilding and construction firm, as well as several restaurants, currently the Sandtrap (a steak and seafood house), and tenures as national sales manager for CBS Industries and national co-op advertising manager for Monsanto Textiles.
 
Concurrently, he has chaired Brain Tumor for Children (for six years) and Angel Flight charity golf tournaments in Atlanta, after having been assistant chair for two PGA tour stops in Georgia. The Bell South Classic (for 14 years) and the Sarazen World Open Golf Tourney (for five).
 
Archibald, wife Barbara and five children (Craig, Mark, Donna, Paul and Patrick) reside in the Atlanta area.