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Jesse Clair Harper (December 10, 1883 – July 31, 1961) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Alma College (1906–1907), Wabash College (1909–1912), and the University of Notre Dame (1913–1917), compiling a career college football record of 57–17 ...
In 1913 he became head coach and athletic director at Notre Dame, guiding the Irish to an undefeated season that first year. He resigned at the age of 33 in 1917 to live on his 20,000-acre ranch in Sitka, Kansas. His five-year record at Notre Dame stood 34-5-1.
Aug 29, 2013 · In his five seasons at Notre Dame from 1913-17, Harper’s team played only 16 games at home and 24 on the road. Yet not only did he compile the 34-5-1 record, but he indeed had generated the economics to make football a profitable venture at the school.
Apr 5, 2020 · 7. Jesse Harper. Tenure: 1913-1917. Record: 34-5-1. Jesse Harper was born and raised in Paw Paw, Illinois as a child. Harper attended the University of Chicago and played football for...
Harper had learned his football while playing for Amos Alonzo Stagg as a member of the 1905 national champion Chicago Maroons. At Chicago, Harper became impressed with the shifting offense that he and Rockne would later refine into the famous Notre Dame shift- from the T-Formation to the box.
Jan 7, 2013 · It was just a little more than 100 years ago when Jesse Harper, the newly hired football and baseball coach and athletic director at the University of Notre Dame, was trying to put together the schedule for the 1913 season.
Aug 29, 2013 · The story behind the appointment of Jesse Harper, Notre Dame's first athletic director, architect of the 1913 football schedule that pushed the Irish to a national power. Feature includes an exclusive look at archive correspondence.
