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Seated here, III: the Marian High School Hall of Fame

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Documented from 2000 — roster not published in the record reached

The hall: Marian High School, the Sisters of St. Francis' school on Dragoon Trail whose founding stands in the Religion record, keeps its own hall of fame, and the documented thread of it begins with the school's founding football coach. Bob Otolski built Marian football from nothing in 1964 — head coach and athletic director through 1972, 76 wins against 11 losses and 3 ties, four conference championships and four undefeated seasons — and the school's hall took him at the turn of the century: the Indiana Football Hall of Fame's own page for Otolski gives his Marian Hall of Fame induction as 2000, and the University of Indianapolis's hall page, which inducted him itself in 2001, gives the Marian year as 2001. Both are printed; the school's own roll, which would settle it, is not published in the record reached. In 2002 the school named its stadium Otolski Field. Mary Hums — Marian's softball player who became a professor of sport management and a national figure in her field — was inducted in 2009, as her published biographies record; she also stands in the ASA Indiana Softball Hall of Fame from 1996, a state single-sport honour printed at its strength. Mike Lightfoot, who coached Marian's basketball teams from 1978 to 1987 before Bethel, is an inductee of this hall as well — the year is not in the record reached, and his entry stands whole below with his four other halls.

Sources:

  1. Indiana Football Hall of Fame (ifca-hof.org), the Hall's own page for Bob Otolski — the Marian Hall of Fame induction as 2000, the coaching record, the Key to the City of Mishawaka (1985), and Otolski Field (2002).
  2. University of Indianapolis athletics, the UIndy Hall of Fame page for Bob Otolski (2001) — the Marian induction as 2001 and his Indiana Football Hall of Fame induction as 2000.
  3. Mary Hums's published biographies (her university and textbook records) — the Marian High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction of 2009 and the ASA Indiana Softball Hall of Fame induction of 1996.

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Source: Seated here, III: the Marian High School Hall of Fame, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/halls-of-fame/seated-here-iii-the-marian-high-school-hall-of/