Ex-Prep Great Meadows Is Dead of Cancer at 62

Randy Meadows, a football star at Downey High in the 1950s, died Monday at his mother’s home in Hemet after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

Meadows shared the 1956 CIF player-of-the-year award with Anaheim High running back Mickey Flynn.

That season, their two schools met in an epic Southern Section title game at the Coliseum before 41,383. On a foggy night, the teams played to a 13-13 tie.

Meadows scored on a 69-yard sweep and Flynn bolted 62 yards for a touchdown.

The next summer, when they were paired in the same backfield for the North-South Shrine All-Star game, it drew 85,931 to the Coliseum, still the biggest crowd to see a high school game in California.

In recent years, Meadows, who lived in Winchester, was a security manager for Moreno Valley Hospital. He is survived by a daughter, EvaLynn, 18. Services are pending.