Frank O. Rogers


Francis Owington "Frank" Rogers was a college football player and physician.

Early years

Francis Owington Rogers was born on October 21, 1876 in Salisbury, North Carolina to B. F. Rogers and Mattie Harkey.

University of North Carolina

Rogers was a prominent quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina. 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. He was selected All-Southern, "and exhibited generalship of a high order."

Physician

Rogers was then educated in medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, receiving his M. D. in 1901. 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.

Marriage

He married Emma Antoinette Tillar in Galveston, Texas on October 26, 1909.

Death

He died in a Memphis hospital after suffering a heart attack.