South Carolina Gamecocks | |
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Position | Quarterback |
Class | Graduate |
Career history | |
College | South Carolina (1924–1926) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Bill Rogers was a college football, baseball, and basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina.
Rogers earned nine varsity letters in his time at South Carolina. [1]
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] With Rogers leading the football team for three years, it went 20–10. [1]
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]