William Lister (Lefty) Rogers (February 6, 1902 – November 13, 1987) was an American rugby union player who competed with the team in the 1924 Summer Olympics when it won the gold medal. He graduated from Stanford University in 1923 and then went on to get his M.D. in 1926 from the same university; in 1966 he became a member of the university's board of trustees. He became one of the founding members of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Besides rugby he also played basketball at Stanford.

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1902 births

1987 deaths

American rugby union players

Rugby union players at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rugby

United States international rugby union players

Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Stanford University trustees

Stanford University alumni

20th-century American academics

William Rogers (rugby union)