Bill Rogers (quarterback)
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{{Infobox college football player
| name = Bill Rogers
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| school = South Carolina Gamecocks
| currentposition = Quarterback
| pastschools = South Carolina (1924–1926)
| class = Graduate
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- All-Southern (1926)
- South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame
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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.
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.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lymewh6L9T4C&pg=PA32 |title=Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion |author=Travis Haney |page=32|isbn=9781609494223 |year=2011 |publisher=History Press }}{{cite web |url=http://www.dailygamecock.com/article/2013/11/snapshot-of-a-rivalry-usc-vs-clemson |title=Snapshot of a rivalry: USC vs. Clemson |author=Sarah Ellis |date=November 26, 2013}}{{cite web |url=https://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20121115/SPORTS/311150059/Spurrier-one-few-USC-coaches-enjoy-success-series |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141220163336/http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20121115/SPORTS/311150059/Spurrier-one-few-USC-coaches-enjoy-success-series |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 20, 2014 |title=Spurrier one of few USC coaches to enjoy success in series |date=November 16, 2012 }} Rogers was selected All-Southern in 1926.{{cite news |title=Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team |newspaper=The Kingsport Times |date=November 28, 1926}} With Rogers leading the football team for three years, 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.gamecocksonline.com/trads/scar-hof.html |title=South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame |access-date=December 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126073750/http://www.gamecocksonline.com/trads/scar-hof.html |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
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