Part (b) by sport and field: each national roster, tested

Part (b) by sport and field — rosters as of November 2026

Lead: Football first, in both its halls. The College Football Hall of Fame's own inductee index — 1,348 inductees as the hall itself counts them — was searched for a New Carlisle, Olive Township or New Prairie tie, by name-place and by the Indiana cohort the hall and the universities publish: the Indiana University line runs through Zora Clevenger, Pete Pihos, George Taliaferro and Anthony Thompson of Terre Haute, and no member of that cohort is a New Carlisle or New Prairie man. Players were enumerated; coaches were counted as a class, and no coach in the hall carries a town tie on the record searched. The verdict for the College hall is a negative.

Canton next, tested one by one as this section requires. The Pro Football Hall of Fame's own hall-of-famers-by-birthplace and by-college listings were the instruments. Indiana's Canton names resolve to other Indiana places and other schools — Pete Pihos through Indiana University is the state's single name on the hall's by-college table for Indiana — and no Canton inductee is listed as born in New Carlisle, schooled at New Prairie, or otherwise tied to this town. The easily confused name is printed to keep it out: Vern Huffman, born in Mooreland and raised in and around New Castle, a Detroit Lion of 1937–38 and an Indiana Football Hall of Fame man, is a New Castle name that a careless search for “Carlisle” in Indiana football returns again and again; he is not this town's, and the town of Carlisle, Indiana, and Carlisle High School in Ohio are likewise other places. Canton verdict: negative.

Baseball: Cooperstown prints its negative where it holds, and here it holds. Indiana's Cooperstown roll, as the hall's own membership reporting and the Indiana-born record give it, runs through other towns — Gil Hodges of Princeton, Scott Rolen of Jasper, Mordecai Brown of Nyesville, Oscar Charleston and Chuck Klein of Indianapolis among the Indiana-born — ten native sons in the standard Indiana-born dictionary's count. No Cooperstown inductee was born in, raised in, or schooled in New Carlisle or at New Prairie. Basketball: the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at Springfield, tested through the Indiana-high-school cohort the hall's record supports — Chuck Taylor of Columbus, Oscar Robertson of Crispus Attucks, Louie Dampier of Southport, Larry Bird of Springs Valley, Gregg Popovich of Merrillville, George McGinnis of Indianapolis Washington, John Wooden of Martinsville, Branch McCracken of Monrovia, Bobby Leonard of Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, Stretch Murphy of Marion — returns no New Prairie or New Carlisle school, and no other town tie. Hockey: the Hockey Hall of Fame test was run on the same tie terms and returns nothing; the negative is printed, not omitted — no inductee with a born, raised, schooled or played-here tie to this town was found. Wiffle ball, the town's own sport at national scale, is the one positive, carried in the frame article: Garrett Curless, New Carlisle Newts, 46th member of the World Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame, August 2025, tie stated as the championship stated it.

Beyond sport. The National Inventors Hall of Fame's own inductee search — 671 results as its index stood when read — was searched for a town tie; its Indiana names resolve elsewhere, Andrew J. Moyer, born in Star City, standing as the type of the pattern, and no inductee is tied to New Carlisle or Olive Township on that record. Invention verdict: negative. The International Circus Hall of Fame at Peru, Indiana, was tested on the one name this town can honestly offer it: Richard Risley Carlisle, “Professor Risley,” originator of the Risley act, whose tie to this town is that he purchased its land in 1835, platted it and named it, after a birth in New Jersey and before a performing career that began, on the circus-history record, in 1841 and carried him to Japan in 1864 as the first Western professional acrobat there. The hall's published prominent-inductees roll, running from Lillian Leitzel (1958) through Barry Lubin (2016), does not carry Risley's name. That roll is headed “prominent inductees,” not a complete roster, and this article claims no more than it shows: on the circus hall's roster as published and reachable, the Risley name is not there — a searched negative at published-roll size, with the completeness limit stated, not a claim about a fuller internal roll this section could not reach. Music halls: no New Carlisle name was returned by any music-hall roster search run for this section, and no documented roster reachable for a music hall yielded a town inductee; the music test therefore stands with the negatives, at search size, in the closing article.

Sources:

1. College Football Hall of Fame, inductees index (prod.cfbhall.com/inductees) — “Discover all 1,348 inductees”; Indiana University Athletics, College Football Hall of Fame enshrinement reporting (Thompson; Clevenger, McMillin, Tavener, Pihos, Taliaferro).
2. Pro Football Hall of Fame, “HOFers by birthplace” and Hall of Famers by College (profootballhof.com) — Indiana table: Indiana, 1, Pete Pihos.
3. National Baseball Hall of Fame, Class of 2023/2025 inductee reporting (baseballhall.org); Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players: A Biographical Dictionary, 1871–2014 — “10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown.”
4. Naismith cohort via Indiana high-school listing of Hall of Fame players and coaches (Taylor, Robertson, Dampier, Bird, Popovich, McGinnis, Wooden, McCracken, Leonard, Murphy, with schools as listed).
5. National Inventors Hall of Fame, Search for Inventors (invent.org) — 671 results; Andrew J. Moyer entry, “Born in Star City, Indiana.”
6. International Circus Hall of Fame, Peru — prominent inductees roll as published (Leitzel 1958 to Lubin 2016; no Risley); Circus History, American Circus Anthology, Richard Risley Carlisle — born Salem/Burlington County, New Jersey, 1814, first circus bill 1841, Yokohama 6 March 1864.
7. World Wiffle Ball Championship (worldwiffleball.org), 2025 championship report — Curless induction, as in the frame article.