Dunn Marteen
Football, Class of 2005

Over the years Santa Ana College has produced many great quarterbacks and the debate will forever reign among those who played with the Dons' signal callers as to who was the college's best.

One name that will always be included in that debate will be Dunn Marteen who guided Homer Beatty's 1962 football team to the college's last undefeated season and third national championship football title.

The Dons outscored their opponents, 362-43, and finished 10-0. What is most impressive is the fact that six of the games were shutouts including a 20-0 win over Washington's Columbia Basin in the junior Rose Bowl, a game in which Marteen was named the Junior Rose Bowl's Most Valuable Player after running for a touchdown, kicking two field goals and running for a PAT.

That same year, he earned first team J. C. Grid-Wire all-American, first team all-Eastern Conference and Eastern Conference Player of the Year honors after completing 55 of 90 passes for 1,026 yards and 16 touchdowns and rushing for 392 yards and eight touchdowns on 84 carries during the regular season.

In his two years at Santa Ana College, the Dons were 17-1-1. In 1963, Marteen followed Beatty to California State University, Los Angeles where he guided the Golden Eagles to a pair of conference titles and a national title in 1964.

Following a banner college career, he signed professionally with the Ottawa Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He would later play two seasons with the Montreal Beavers of the Continential League before returning to southern California to once again play for Beatty and the Orange County Ramblers.

After hanging up his cleats he moved to Michigan where he began working in the trucking industry. Now residing in Coldwater, Michigan, Marteen is retired and part-owner of Commercial Sports Bar.