The rest of the line, tested one by one

The born-and-formed register, against the Hall's lists

Every other name was tested, and the answer is no. The Sports Players record of this history carries South Bend's born-and-formed football line whole — the professional register from Pro Football Reference and the schoolboy line of the city's high schools — and each name in it was checked against the College Football Hall of Fame's complete inductee lists, players and coaches, through the class of 2025. Joe Kuharich, Riley High School's guard who played at Notre Dame and later coached it: not in either list. Steve Nemeth, Riley's All-State quarterback of 1940 and 1941: not in. Ernie Zalejski, Washington High School's three-time all-state halfback of three unbeaten Notre Dame teams: not in. Anthony Johnson of Adams, Anthony Barr, born in the city, Danny Pinter of Adams: not in. The leather-helmet line — Frank Bacon and John Scanlon; the Riley alumni Joe Domnanovich and Lou Mihajlovich; the born-only tie of MyCole Pruitt; Tom Ehlers, Kentucky's captain; Phil Cancik, Bill Roe and John Faylor: not one of them stands in the College Hall. The coaching side was tested on the same terms: Bernie Witucki, whose Washington teams of 1935–43 were reckoned mythical state champions three years running and who coached Talboom, does not stand in the Hall's coaches list. And the reverse test — the fifty Notre Dame players and six coaches of the entries above, checked for a South Bend birth or a South Bend high school — returns no name either; the university's Hall men came to this ground from elsewhere, as the university's men do.

The test's result, printed at its size: as of the class of 2025, exactly one man formed at a South Bend high school stands in the College Football Hall of Fame — Eddie Talboom, and he stands there as Wyoming's. The city's road into the College Hall ran, for everyone else, through the university two miles north of the Hall's own building: the Hall lived in South Bend for seventeen years, and the school that filled its roster was the school across the city line in Notre Dame. That is not a thin result dressed up; it is the documented shape of the thing, and the state hall's roster, in the boundary entry below, shows where the city's own football honor roll actually lives.

Sources:

1. Sports Players record of this history — the born-and-formed football register tested here, from Pro Football Reference's birthplace and school registers and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame record.
2. College Football Hall of Fame, complete inductee lists, players and coaches, through the class of 2025 — the lists against which each name was tested, the same lists enumerated in the Notre Dame entries above.