 Raffensperger graduated from Iowa in 1927 and took a high school coaching job in Reinbeck, Iowa.His football teams posted a 20–7–6 record in four years, from 1927 to 1930.Waterloo East High School in Waterloo, Iowa hired Raffensperger in 1931, and he spent the next 17 seasons there, compiling a 90–41–8 record.