Des Rowe

Australian rules footballer and coach

Australian rules footballer
Des Rowe
Des Rowe among the Richmond players in 1961
Personal information
Full name Kenneth Desmond Rowe
Date of birth (1925-11-19)19 November 1925
Date of death 12 May 2007(2007-05-12) (aged 81)
Original team(s) Coburg
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 82.5 kg (182 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1946–1957 Richmond 175 (24)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1961–1963 Richmond 54 (15–39–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1957.
Career highlights
  • Richmond Best and Fairest 1951, 1955
  • Richmond Captain 1952–1957
  • Interstate Games: 7
  • Interstate Captain 1956
  • All-Australian 1956
  • Richmond – Team of the Century
  • Richmond – Hall of Fame – inducted 2004
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Kenneth Desmond Rowe (19 November 1925 – 12 May 2007)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1946 and 1957 for the Richmond Football Club. He was later senior coach of Richmond from 1961 to 1963.[2]

Family

The son of Collingwood player Percy Rowe (1896–1976),[3] and Catherine Isobel Rowe (1899–1981), née Smith, Kenneth Desmond Rowe was born on 19 November 1925.

Football

After a successful season with Coburg (where his father was the coach) in 1945, Rowe crossed to Richmond where he became one of the finest half backs in the VFL. A regular player for Victoria, Rowe earned All Australian selection at the 1956 Perth carnival. Rowe was made Richmond captain in 1952, a position he held until the end of his senior playing career.

Notes

  1. ^ "AFL Annual Report 2007" (PDF). Australian Football League. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 771. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ^ "LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS OF 1950 — HALF-BACK FLANKERS". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 July 1950. p. 12.

References

  • Hogan, P: The Tigers of Old: A Complete History of Every Player to Represent the Richmond Football Club between 1908 and 1996, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1

External links

  • Des Rowe at AustralianFootball.com
  • Des Rowe's playing statistics from AFL Tables
  • Des Rowe's playing statistics from The VFA Project
  • Rowe a true Tiger great – Richmond in mourning
  • Richmond Football Club – Hall of Fame Archived 11 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine


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Defenders
Midfielders
  • Des Healey (Collingwood)
  • Jack Clarke (Essendon)
  • Jack Lynch (West Adelaide)
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  • Bob Rose (Collingwood)
  • Jack Howell (Carlton)
  • Jim Deane (South Adelaide)
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  • Barry White (South Fremantle)
  • Ray Poulter (Richmond)
  • Thorold Merrett (Collingwood)
  • Followers
  • John Marriott (Norwood)
  • Denis Cordner (Melbourne)
  • Bill Hutchison (Essendon)
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