The defining players, the supporting cast, and the rosters the record prints

1923–2026 — two full rosters whole, one finals record, the rest at the record's size

The defining players, pointed and added: The program's four professional Cavemen stand whole in the Sports leg's player articles and are not re-dug here: George Gulyanics (All-State fullback 1938, the 1937 South Bend Golden Gloves welterweight champion, Chicago Bears 1947–52), Chick Maggioli (class of 1941), Lou Mihajlovich and Tom Ehlers — the last two lines carrying Indiana Football Hall of Fame enshrinement with them. What this section adds is the school-level summit the survey did not carry: Sam Schrader, the 2012 quarterback, who in the state final at Lucas Oil Stadium rushed 23 times for 190 yards and two touchdowns, threw for 74 yards and another score, and took the Class 4A Phil N. Eskew Mental Attitude Award — the IHSAA's own finals record still cites his 190 rushing yards as the mark for a quarterback in a championship game ("the last time it happened," in the record book's running line). And Scot Shaw of the 1974 team, the Class 3A Mental Attitude Award recipient of 1974-75 on the IHSAA finals programs' rolls — the finals era's other Mishawaka name in the association's own book. Behind them, the yearbook captains: Kenny Gerard (1923), Roy Horstmann (1928, in the 1929 Miskodeed), the fullback Ronzone (1929 captain in the 1930 volume), and Bortone and Asher, co-captains of 1962.

The supporting cast, gathered: Miller's era left its cast in a single Tribune sentence of 2004, and it is gathered here whole because it is the era's roster evidence: the players Jim Miller sent on — John Roggeman (Indiana), Jim Aldrich (Illinois State), Steve Weaver (Navy), John Coppens (Illinois), Tony Moshak (Rose-Hulman), Rob Roggeman (West Point), Dirk Sloan (Western Kentucky), Dennis Teegarden (Indiana State), John Danaher (Montana) and Joe Schrader (St. Joseph's). The 1929 season's cast stands in the 1930 Miskodeed's account: Captain Ronzone at fullback, Conway's punting, Kronewitter, Walton, Harris, Albright, Valentine and Nappier, in a season whose South Bend game drew 9,000 to a borrowed field while Notre Dame's stadium rose. The 1962 cast stands in its yearbook: Witkowski at quarterback, Bortone, Hall, Calentine, Richards, Nicolini, Asher, Friedman, Cookerly, Imus, Salyer and the second row behind them — printed whole as a roster below.

Roster one — the 1923 squad (the earliest the record prints), from the Miskodeed of 1924: Top row — Scheer, Neff, Egendorfer, Dennis, Fuson, Baker, Bunn, Johnson, Hiler, Coach Kaiser. Second row — Kraus, W. Brady, Fisher, Christensen, Heiser, Capt. Gerard, Baer, I. Brady. Bottom row — Marker, Philion, Don Kemper, and the balance of the photographed squad as the yearbook's caption gives it. The caption is a photograph's caption, not a program's roster: surnames only, in rows, and it is printed at exactly that size — the first roster mechanics the record holds, from the season before Steele.

Roster two — the 1962 varsity, from the Miskodeed of 1963: Seated — Managers Miller, Cannoot, Carter. Front row — Coach Jellicoe, Co-Captain Bortone, Hall, Calentine, Richards, Nicolini, Co-Captain Asher, Friedman, Cookerly, Imus, Witkowski, Salyer, Coach Rems. Second row — Coach Portolese, Hatton, Shaffer, Holmes, Dittrich, Werner, Falkenau, Duleh, Sullivan, Personette, Baldwin, Sirlin, Bice, Coach Heck. Back row — Derrickson, Britton, Kling, Parker, Hays, Kuhn, Hughes, Brock, Roys, Wood, Thompson. Thirty-two players, three assistant coaches, one head coach and three managers — the fullest single squad list the school record prints in the volumes read, and the documentary center of Heck's era.

The 2012 finals record — participants, not a roster: The IHSAA's official box score of the 2012 Class 4A final (24 November 2012, Lucas Oil Stadium) names the Cavemen who appear in the game's record: Schrader (rushing 190 yards, 2 TD; passing 74 yards, 1 TD), Angelo Multari (35 rushing yards and a touchdown; a 13-yard touchdown catch), Matt Carver (35 rushing yards; 3 catches for 61 yards; a two-point conversion), Tyler McDaniel, D. Blackford (the placekicks), Cody Childress (punting), Nathan Oswalt and Tanner Bradley (defense, on the tackle lines).

The roster gap, named: No full printed roster for the 1925 or 1926 championship teams, and none for the 1974 finalists, stands in the record reached; the register that governs this build notes that before this section, no full rosters stood anywhere in the build at all. The two yearbook rosters above close that absence at the points where the school record actually prints them. The settling sources for the rest are the same standing ones: the school record books, the unread Miskodeed volumes, and the IHSAA's state-finals programs (the 1974 program chief among them), which print finalist rosters as a matter of course.

Sources:

1. The Sports leg of this history — the four professional Cavemen's articles, cross-referenced.
2. IHSAA, official scoring summary and box score, 2012 Class 4A state final, Mishawaka vs. Cathedral, 24 November 2012 (ihsaa.org) — the participants and lines printed above; IHSAA state-finals programs 2013-14 (p. 39: the 190-yard quarterback mark) and 2023-24 (p. 32: the Mental Attitude rolls, Schrader 2012-13); IHSAA state-finals program 2013-14 (p. 35: Scot Shaw, 1974-75).
3. Miskodeed 1924, 1929, 1930 and 1963 (Internet Archive full texts) — the 1923 and 1962 rosters whole; the captains; the 1929 cast.
4. South Bend Tribune, 2004 — Jim Miller's college-placed players, gathered whole.