Class Graduate Name Bill Rogers | Role American football Positions Quarterback | |
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College South Carolina Gamecocks football | ||
Bill Rogers was a college football, baseball, and basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina.
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Gamecocks
Rogers earned nine varsity letters in his time at South Carolina.
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. Rogers was selected All-Southern in 1926. In Rogers three years leading the football team it went 20–10.
Basketball
The basketball team went 33–16 while Rogers was on the team. He scored 345 points in 47 career games.
Rogers was elected to the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame in 1969.
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