| Joe Rosentover | |
| Birth Name: | Joseph Rosentover |
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1903 [1] |
| Birth Place: | US |
| Death Place: | Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Football Manager |
Joseph Rosentover (12 January 1903 - 4 December 1973[2]) became the manager and president of the American Association football league in 1936 [3] and also became the president of Atlantic Coast Football League in 1963.
Rosentover was born in 1903. He died at the age of 70 in 1973.[1] [4]
In 1936, when he was 33, Rosentover was made president of the newly founded American Association.[5] In 1940 the league started to include teams from Ohio and Pennsylvania.[3] [5] He was inducted into the American Football Association Hall of Fame in 1983.[6]
In 1963, the year after the league was started, Rosentover was made president and manager of the Atlantic Coast Football League, a league that included teams from several former AA/AFL markets (including two, the Newark Bears and Providence Steam Roller that revived former AA teams). Rosentover was with the league through no later than the 1967 season; by 1968, Cosmo Iacavazzi had replaced him as head of the league.