Joseph Rowe


Joseph Zerbe Rowe was an American college football coach and real estate dealer. He was the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serving for one season, in 1903, and compiling a record of 6–2.
Rowe played college football at Bucknell University from 1895 to 1899. Before going to Kalamazoo in 1903, he was a student at the University of Chicago. Rowe later went into the real estate business in Chicago, where was a partner of the firm of Rowe and Whitner. A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Rowe was a veteran of the Spanish–American War. He was also a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary and an ordained Baptist minister. Rowe died on August 19, 1931, at his home in Chicago.