Frank O. Rogers
Depiction of Rogers, c. 1898
Born(1876-10-21)October 21, 1876
Salisbury, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedNovember 8, 1939(1939-11-08) (aged 63)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationPhysician
College football career
North Carolina Tar Heels
PositionQuarterback
ClassGraduate
MajorMedicine
Personal information
Weight160 lb (73 kg)
Career history
CollegeNorth Carolina (1896–1898)
Career highlights and awards

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

  1. 1 2 Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy (1907). University of Maryland, 1807-1907. Vol. 2. pp. 282–283.
  2. 1 2 The Hospital Bulletin. Hospital Bulletin Company of the University of Maryland. 1910. p. 184.
  3. ↑ Kemp Plummer Battle (1912). History of the University of North Carolina. p. 751.
  4. ↑ University of North Carolina ... football blue book for press and radio. 1956. p. 25.
  5. ↑ W. A. Lambeth (1899). "Football In The South". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 33: 527.
  6. ↑ "1898". The Alumni Review. 10 (6): 174. March 1922.
  7. ↑ "Southern medicine and surgery".
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