Bill Rogers (quarterback)
Bill Rogers was a college football, baseball, and basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina. GamecocksRogers earned nine varsity letters in his time at South Carolina.[1] FootballOn 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] BasketballThe 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
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