Billy Rogers (footballer)

[1][2] He played 2 matches for the Wales national football team in the British Home Championship.

He played his first match on 25 October 1930 against Scotland at Ibrox, drawing 1–1,[1] and his second on 22 November 1930 against England at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground, losing 4–0.

[citation needed] He subsequently played for Newport County, Bristol Rovers, and Clapton Orient, whom he left for Bangor City, a non-league team, at the end of the 1933–34 season.

[4] He was unknowingly diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease in 1931, a terminal cancer, which contributed to his death in January 1936[citation needed] from tuberculosis, aged 30.

[5] During the period from 1931 to 1934 he continued to play professionally unaware of his condition, with only his wife being informed.