Pepper Rodgers

American football player and coach (1931-2020)

PersonDied aged 88humanQ7166375

Also known as Frank "Pepper" Rodgers · Frank Rodgers · Franklin Cullen Rodgers

Born: October 8, 1931
Died: May 14, 2020
Birthplace: Atlanta
1
Sources
1.Stated in Freebase Data Dumps
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: American football player
, head coach
1
Sources
1.Stated in NCAA StatisticsRetrieved 2021-08-29
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Education: Georgia Tech

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Franklin Cullen "Pepper" Rodgers was an American football player and coach. As a college football player, he led the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to an undefeated season in 1952 and later became their head coach. He also coached collegiately for the Kansas Jayhawks and UCLA Bruins before leading professional teams in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States Football League (USFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).

Overview

All data

31 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Sex or gender: male
Website: pepperrodgers.com
Family name: Rodgers
Position played on team / speciality: quarterback
Member of sports team: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
Sport: American football
Coach of sports team: Kansas Jayhawks football
1
Sources
1.Stated in NCAA StatisticsRetrieved 2021-08-29
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Given name: Franklin
Cullen

On other databases

14 identifiers linking Pepper Rodgers across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

16%

externally sourced

Source last edited August 10, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q7166375

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). Pepper Rodgers (Q7166375). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/pepper-rodgers-Q7166375