She was projected to be one of the best high school football kickers of the 1943 season. But after one game with New Castle High, the IHSAA kicked her off.
NEW CASTLE -- She was discovered in a freshman gym class by football coach Griz Baker. Among a sea of boys booting balls, Aggie Rifner kicked, too. She kicked better than any of those guys.
Aggie liked that idea. She started practicing every day, every chance she got, kicking balls through the uprights. But no one got to see just how well Aggie could kick. After starting one game, she was banned from the New Castle football team by the Indiana High School Athletic Association. "Trojans lose; Feminine kicker's debut deferred," read IndyStar's headline on Aggie's first game in which she didn't take the field.
Another reporter wrote:"Little Miss Rifner frightened almost to tears in her debut against Knightstown last week missed both her attempts at conversion."
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