Leonard Raffensperger

Leonard Raffensperger went 5–⁠10–⁠3 as a head coach, 1950–⁠1951, at Iowa.

Record
5–⁠10–⁠3 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1950 3–⁠5–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1470 in 1950
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1950Iowa3–⁠5–⁠16th
1951Iowa2–⁠5–⁠29th

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams71–⁠6
Against top-10 teams40–⁠4
Against rivals61–⁠4–⁠1
Conference games122–⁠9–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer61–⁠2–⁠3
At home83–⁠3–⁠2
On the road102–⁠7–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite42–⁠1–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog143–⁠9–⁠2

His own 18 games on file, 1950–⁠1951, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Minnesotaseries21–⁠0–⁠1
Purdueseries21–⁠1
Notre Dameseries20–⁠0–⁠2
Ohio Stateseries20–⁠2
Wisconsinseries20–⁠2
Illinoisseries20–⁠2
USCseries11–⁠0
Pittsburghseries11–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1931–⁠47Waterloo East HS (IA) high schoolHead coach
1948–⁠49IowaFreshman coach
1950–⁠51IowaHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Leonard Raffensperger

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Edward AndersonIowa1948–⁠49Freshman coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bernie MastersonIowa, 1950: backfield coachNebraska, Lewis

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.