Letters to the Petaluma Argus-Courier: On the 76ers soccer team, election aftermath

The Petaluma 76ers men’s soccer team of 1993. (Photo courtesy David Freedman) By Contributed ContentPUBLISHED: November 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM PST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...One team, 50 years, two mayors EDITOR: Fifty years ago a group of guys playing recreational soccer created the Petaluma 76ers. Back then there were two over-30 men’s soccer teams in Petaluma, the 76ers and the Sentinels. The players on the teams were local and skilled, from supervising submarines, to supervising for the PG&E. They were carpenters, CPAs, teachers and truck drivers. It started one Sunday in 1976 when Martin Bohn, a union carpenter (who at 90 still volunteers for Petaluma Bounty), came to Kenilworth Field to play and Del Rosenthal (a.k.a. Rosy) declared that the team had a name: the 76ers.

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