Bill Rogers (American football)

Bill Rogers
South Carolina Gamecocks
Position Quarterback
Class Graduate
Career history
College South Carolina (1924–1926)
Career highlights and awards

Bill Rogers was a college football, baseball, and basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina.

Gamecocks

Rogers earned nine varsity letters in his time at South Carolina.[1]

Football

On Branch Bocock's football teams, he was quarterback and punter. Once against rival Clemson Rogers picked up his own punt, which had bounced off a Clemson player, and ran seventeen yards for a 10 to 0 lead in what would be a 33 to 0 victory.[2][3][4] Rogers was selected All-Southern in 1926.[5] In Rogers three years leading the football team it went 20–10.[1]

Basketball

The basketball team went 33–16 while Rogers was on the team. He scored 345 points in 47 career games.[1]

Rogers was elected to the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame in 1969.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame".
  2. ↑ Travis Haney. Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Sarah Ellis (November 26, 2013). "Snapshot of a rivlry:USC vs. Clemson".
  4. ↑ "Spurrier one of few USC coaches to enjoy success in series". November 16, 2012. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.


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