Frank O. Rogers
Frank O. Rogers | |
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![]() Depiction of Rogers c. 1898 | |
Born | |
Died | November 8, 1939 | (aged 63)
Occupation | Physician |
College football career | |
North Carolina Tar Heels | |
Position | Quarterback |
Class | Graduate |
Major | Medicine |
Personal information | |
Weight | 160 lb (73 kg) |
Career history | |
College | North Carolina (1896–1898) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Francis Owington "Rogers (October 21, 1876 – November 8, 1939) was an American college football player and physician.
Early years[]
Rogers was born on October 21, 1876, in Salisbury, North Carolina, to B. F. Rogers and Mattie Harkey.[1][2]
University of North Carolina[]
Rogers was a prominent quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina.[3] In his freshman year he was captain of the team.
1898[]
Rogers was captain of the undefeated, Southern champion 1898 team. It is the only undefeated team in the history of UNC football.[4] He was selected All-Southern, "and exhibited generalship of a high order."[5]
Physician[]
Rogers was then educated in medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, receiving his M. D. in 1901.[1] He was once a resident physician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Baltimore and then a practicing physician in Concord, North Carolina. Much later he practiced in Little Rock, Arkansas.[6]
Marriage[]
He married Emma Antoinette Tillar in Galveston, Texas on October 26, 1909.[2]
Death[]
He died in a Memphis hospital after suffering a heart attack.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy (1907). University of Maryland, 1807-1907. Vol. 2. pp. 282–283.
- ^ a b The Hospital Bulletin. Hospital Bulletin Company of the University of Maryland. 1910. p. 184.
- ^ Kemp Plummer Battle (1912). History of the University of North Carolina. p. 751.
- ^ University of North Carolina ... football blue book for press and radio. 1956. p. 25.
- ^ W. A. Lambeth (1899). "Football In The South". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 33: 527.
- ^ "1898". The Alumni Review. 10 (6): 174. March 1922.
- ^ "Southern medicine and surgery".
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- All-Southern college football players
- University of Maryland School of Medicine alumni
- Sportspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas
- People from Salisbury, North Carolina
- Players of American football from North Carolina