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Bill Rogers (other)
Bill Rogers may refer to: Sports * Bill Rogers (quarterback), college football and basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks * Bill Rogers (tackle) (1913–1977), American football player * Bill Rogers (athlete) (born 1985), Liberian runner * Bill Rogers (footballer) (1893–1918), Australian rules footballer * Bill Rogers (golfer) (born 1951), American golfer Others * Bill Rogers (educationalist), Australian educationalist * Bill Rogers (Michigan politician) (born 1954), member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2009–2012) * Bill Rogers (New Zealand politician) (1887–1971), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1940–1950) * Bill Rogers (voice actor), New York-based voice actor * Bill Rogers (musician) (1906–1984), Guyanese musician, born Augustus Hinds See also * Billie Rogers (1917–2014), big band jazz trumpeter born Zelda Louise Smith * William Rogers (other) * William Rodgers (other) {{hndis, Rogers, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (quarterback)
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 The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ... 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. Rogers was selected All-Southern in 1926. In Rogers three years leading the football team 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (tackle)
William Curtis Rogers (June 24, 1913 – April 30, 1977) was an American football player. A native of Westborough, Massachusetts, Rogers attended Westborough High School and Brighton Academy and then played college football at Villanova University. He then played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a tackle for the Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford .... He appeared in 25 games for the Lions from 1938 to 1940 and 1944. References 1913 births 1977 deaths American football tackles Villanova Wildcats football players Detroit Lions players Players of American football from Worcester County, Massachusetts {{Amfoot-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (athlete)
Bill Rogers (born 30 September 1985) is a Liberian runner. He was born in Kakata, Liberia. He competed in the 1500 metres dash in the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics in Debrecen, Hungary in July, 2001. He currently holds the Liberian national record for the 1500 m. He ran a 4:01.56 for the Liberian record in Cotonou, Benin on 27 June 2004. Rogers was slated to run the 800 metres representing Liberia in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece but instead joined Sayon Cooper and Kouty Manweh in a boycott of the games due to alleged unfair treatment of the expelled Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC) boss, Clemenceau Urey. In 2010 Bill formed the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation, benefiting and empowering the youth of Liberia. He is a graduate of El Paso Community College El Paso Community College (EPCC) is a community college district headquartered in El Paso, Texas, United States. EPCC operates five campuses in the Greater El Paso area, as well as cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (footballer)
William Martin "Willie" Rogers (15 April 1893 – 22 September 1918) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League. He spent the 1913 season at Carlton before moving to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) side Brunswick in 1914. He died of wounds sustained in action in World War I. Family The son of John Rogers (-1909), and Mary Rogers (1856–1924), née Fitzgerald, William Martin Rogers was born at Woolamai, Victoria on 15 April 1893. Football Carlton (VFL) In addition to the three senior games he played with the Carlton First XVIII, he also played a number of games for "Carlton District" in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) in 1913. Brunswick (VFA) Rogers was granted a clearance from Carlton to Brunswick on 22 April 1914. However, there's no evidence that he ever played in a match for either the Brunswick First XVIII or its associated "Junior" team. Military service He enlisted in the First AIF o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (golfer)
William Charles Rogers (born September 10, 1951) is an American professional golfer who is best known as the winner of the 1981 Open Championship. Rogers was born in Waco, Texas. He attended Texarkana, Texas High School where he excelled on the golf team. He began honing his skills at Northridge Country Club winning numerous local amateur events in northeast Texas. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, and Rogers spent part of his military brat youth in Morocco and Germany. Rogers began playing golf at age nine and later attended the University of Houston, where he played on the Cougar golf team and roomed with fellow future PGA Tour pro Bruce Lietzke. As an amateur golfer, he played for the U.S. in the 1973 Walker Cup. Rogers played the PGA Tour full-time from 1975 to 1988 and won six tournaments, including four in 1981. Almost uniquely for an American golfer, his two most notable victories were in Britain: Rogers won the Suntory World Match P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (educationalist)
Dr Bill Rogers (born 1947) is an Education consultant. He is the founder of the Rogers Education Consultancy. Career A teacher by profession, Rogers now works as an educational consultant at all levels of education - primary, post-primary and tertiary. He has also worked with other consultancies to provide in-services, lecture-programs and in-school workshops with teachers throughout Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. He has written several books about education for SAGE Publications, ACER and Scholastic Australia. In particular, he has provided guidance on dealing with disruptive and challenging behaviour in classrooms. Academic honours Rogers is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education The Australian College of Educators (ACE) is an Australian national professional association for educators. Membership is open to all professional educators working in the early childhood, school, and tertiary education sectors, as well as to edu ..., an Honorary Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (Michigan Politician)
Bill Rogers (born July 4, 1954) is a politician from Michigan who served in that state's Michigan House of Representatives, House of Representatives. Biography A Republican from Brighton, he was first elected in 2008, and, due to Term limits in the United States#State legislatures with term limits, term limits, was ineligible to seek re-election to the House in 2014. He is the older brother of Congressman Mike Rogers (Michigan politician), Mike Rogers. Electoral history 2008 2010 2012 Because of redistricting following the 2010 United States Census, Rogers was redistricted into and ran for the Michigan's 42nd House of Representatives district, 42nd District. References 1954 births People from Brighton, Michigan Politicians from Lima, Ohio Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives Living people 21st-century American politicians {{Michigan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (New Zealand Politician)
William James Rogers (10 January 1887 – 6 July 1971) was a New Zealand politician. He was a long-serving Mayor of Wanganui, and a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1940 until its abolition in 1950. Biography Rogers worked as gardener and miner at Denniston and became involved in trade unionism via the Miners' Union. He was later the secretary of the Wanganui Watersiders' Union. Rogers' daughter, Ida, married electrical engineer Philip Blakeley in 1938. Rogers was Mayor of Wanganui from 1927 to 1931, and again from 1935 to 1953. He contested the , , and s in the electorate for the Labour Party, but lost to Bill Veitch, the incumbent. He was appointed to the Legislative Council by the First Labour Government, and was a member from 15 July 1940 to 14 July 1947; and 15 July 1947 to 31 December 1950. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1954 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (voice Actor)
William Rogers is an American voice actor who primarily worked in the New York area for several years before moving to Los Angeles in 2015. He has done work for various studios such as DuArt Film and Video, Ocon Animation Studios, Headline Studios, New Generation Pictures and Bang Zoom! Entertainment. Career Rogers began his voice over career in 2001, with the anime series ''Assemble Insert''. He has worked on various dubs, and in stage productions, including ''Boogiepop Phantom'' as Anno, ''Cells at Work!'' as Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, ''Comic Party'' as Otaku, ''Genshiken'' as Tanaka Soichiro, '' Gokudo'' as Soldier, ''His and Her Circumstances'' as Pero Pero and Mr. Arima, '' Hunter x Hunter (2011)'' as Meleoron and Majitani, '' Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny'' as Gakushuu, Narrator and Toutasu, ''To Heart'' as Imai, '' Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor'' as Red Dragon Sousou and Shuhou, ''K.O. Beast'' as Shaba and ''Kuroko's Basketball'' as Shinsuke Kimura. Rogers is best known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Rogers (musician)
Augustus Hinds (1906 – 1984), who performed under the stage name Bill Rogers, was a Guyanese singer and songwriter, credited with developing shanto music. He was the first Guyanese musician to record internationally. Biography Born in 1906, he grew up in the multi-ethnic Charlestown area of south Georgetown, British Guiana. As a child he joined in family shows put on by his sisters. He made his first stage appearance aged five, wrote his first songs aged 13, and then organised his own vaudeville-style group, the Merry Makers, who toured in Suriname. He made his first radio broadcasts in 1929, and also incorporated comedy and magic into his stage act. In the late 1920s, he developed the concept of "shanto" music, which he described as "an improvisation of words and music with an Afro-West Indian beat, with satirical comments on people, events and things...". His songs were aimed at, and commented on issues relevant to the everyday lives of, the working-class urban popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Rogers
Billie Rogers (née Zelda Louise Smith) (May 31, 1917 – January 18, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer who was a member of Woody Herman's band from 1941 to 1943. She led her own band in 1943. At the end of that year, she joined Jerry Wald's band and remained a member until October 1945, when she left to form her own sextet. Rogers is credited as the first woman to hold a horn position in a major jazz orchestra. Woody Herman discovered Rogers in August 1941. After his band had finished for the evening at the Palladium Ballroom Cafe in Hollywood, Herman had gone to a small Los Angeles night club on the advice of his road manager where Rogers was singing and playing trumpet. Impressed, he asked for an introduction. Sammy Cahn, the songwriter, introduced them, and within a few minutes Herman hired her for his Blues on Parade band. She made her debut at the Panther Room of the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. Biography Growing up Rogers was born Zelda Louise Smith on May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rogers (other)
William Rogers may refer to: Politics * William Rogers (Australian politician) (1818–1903), builder and pastoralist in colonial South Australia * William Rogers (MP) (1498–1553), Member of Parliament for Norwich * William Rogers (Wisconsin politician) (1838–1911), Wisconsin state assemblyman and judge * William Charles Rogers (1847–1917), Cherokee leader * William D. Rogers (1927–2007), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs * William Findlay Rogers (1820–1899), congressman from New York, 1883–1884 * William H. Rogers (mayor) (1850–1935), mayor of Madison, Wisconsin * William J. Rogers (1930–2005), Wisconsin state assemblyman * William Nathaniel Rogers (1892–1945), congressman from New Hampshire, 1923–1924 and 1931–1936 * William P. Rogers (1913–2001), U.S. Attorney General under Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon * Will Rogers (Maine politician) (born 1938), realtor and politician in Maine * Will Rogers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |