Ben Agajanian
Agajanian kicked for 14 teams:
Ben Agajanian is considered the first “kicking specialist” in pro football. Known as “The Toeless Wonder”, he had four toes on his kicking foot crushed off in a work accident.
The Armenian-American kicked field goals for 14 different teams during his professional career that spanned from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was one of only two players to play in the All-America Football Conference, the American Football League and the National Football League.
After his playing career he became pro football’s first ever kicking coach. His creative teaching ideas enabled him to devise the method of which soccer-style kickers align and approach the ball when kicking field goals. This method was so innovative that it is still the primary way used by soccer-style kickers today.
When he retired as a player, Agajanian served as the Dallas Cowboys’ kicking coach for 20 years.
BIO INFO
Date of birth: August 28, 1919
Place of birth: Santa Ana, California
College: New Mexico
