Bertram Rogers

His first known football match was for the North Oxford club against Newbury in February 1880, as a forward;^[6] although Westminster was known as a footballing nursery, he never represented the school.

However Rogers was a late bloomer, as his appearance for North Oxford led to him being chosen the following month for the Oxford University side as a half-back in the 1879–80 FA Cup quarter-final tie with the Royal Engineers; by coincidence, the captain at the start of the season had been another Rogers (Percy John Mackarness), but he was no relation. Rogers' first three competitive matches came inside a week - the original tie with the Sappers, the replay after the original match was drawn, and, in between, the Varsity match against Cambridge. He played as half-back in all three matches, which were all played at the Kennington Oval. Oxford beat the Sappers in the replay,^[7] but lost the Varsity.^[8]

Rogers kept his place in the win over Nottingham Forest in the semi-final,^[9] and, in the final against Clapham Rovers, "greatly distinguished" himself, but the Rovers clinched the game with a late goal.^[10]

Rogers only appears in two more matches, a 4–0 win over Maidenhead in October 1880,^[11] and again on the losing side in the Varsity in February 1881.^[12]

Rogers became a doctor of medicine, living in Clifton, Bristol, and on 2 October 1891 married Agnes Fletcher at Carfax.^[13] The couple had two daughters.

He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, being appointed Lieutenant in 1908.^[14] By 1921 he was a lieutenant-colonel^[15] and was made an Officer of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in October 1927.^[16]

He was an author of a number of medical papers, and edited a handbook to Bristol for the British Association in 1898, contributing a chapter on meteorology.^[17]

He returned to Oxford in retirement, where he died on 10 February 1953, with his daughters being granted probate; his estate was worth over £27,800.^[18]