Leon Hart was the strapping son of a Westinghouse Crane operator who lived in Pittsburgh’s Southeast suburb of Turtle Creek. He was one of Notre Dame’s first “middle class” recruits.
A Multi-Sport Star; A Prized Recruit
There was nothing Hart could not do, on the classroom or on any field of athletic endeavor. He was equally as adept at baseball and basketball as he was in football.
But Notre Dame drew a bead on him for football, and Leahy, fresh back from the Navy in the Pacific Theatre of operations, assigned assistant coach Edwin “Moose” Krause to recruit Leon Hart.