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This Week in the West: Jesse Harper, the Kansas Rancher Who Built Notre Dame Football
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🎙️ Episode 58: Jesse Harper, the Kansas Rancher Who Built Notre Dame Football
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This episode of This Week in The West explores the remarkable, often overlooked life of Jesse Harper—a rancher, coach, and member of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Westerners. The story opens in 1931 with the tragic Kansas plane crash that killed Knute Rockne. Harper, a close friend and the man who had once coached Rockne at Notre Dame, was called to identify his body and later accompanied him home to Indiana as the nation mourned. That moment…
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