Steele Stadium's Two Dates

SECOND PASS · SETTLEMENT AND RE-DATING TO TUESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2026

Steele Stadium carries two dates because it is two things. The playing field at Linden and Gernhart opened on 18 September 1926 — that is the school's athletics record, and the field's centennial, marked in 2026, runs from it. The stadium — the WPA bleachers and the works around them — was completed in 1939 at about $130,000, $55,000 of it from the Board of Control — that is the school's building record. Neither date corrects the other; a citation of "Steele Stadium, 1926" speaks of the ground in play, and "Steele Stadium, 1939" of the building, and this build prints the date that matches the claim. The same shape recurs at Bethel, and the same rule settles it: Patterson Field opened in 1977, Jenkins Stadium above it in its current state in 2004 — field and building, two dates, both kept.

The present state, re-dated: The leg's present-tense standings are re-dated to a named day: Tuesday, 10 November 2026. As of that day the banked present-state entry stands as verified in November 2026 and is carried forward unchanged in substance: Mishawaka High (Northern Lakes Conference) finished its 2026 football season 6–4, its year ending in the first-round sectional loss at Northridge on 23 October 2026, in Steele Stadium's centennial season; Marian (Northern Indiana Conference) closed its 2026 football season in the sectional's first round at Angola and its girls soccer season, played up in Class 3A as defending 2A champions, in the regional final; Bethel (Crossroads League; NAIA and NCCAA Division I) stood in the first fall of the David Osborn men's basketball era after a 26–9 season, its cross country teams having closed their league season at the Crossroads championships on 6 November 2026. Any line in the leg stated in the present tense is to be read as of 10 November 2026.

Sources:

1. Mishawaka High School athletics (2026 centennial account) and building history — the field of 18 September 1926 and the stadium completion of 1939, as banked and settled here.
2. Bethel University athletics (bupilots.com), Jenkins Stadium facilities page and the baseball record book — Patterson Field 1977, Jenkins Stadium 2004.
3. Sports, "The present state — November 2026," and its Tribune and Bethel sources (August–9 November 2026) — the standings re-dated here to 10 November 2026.