Bob Rowse

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bob Rowse

| image =

| fullname = Robert Leslie Rowse

| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|09|08|df=y}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|5|5|1926|9|8|df=y}}

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| originalteam = Ormond

| height = 183 cm

| weight = 83 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1951

| years1 = 1951

| club1 = {{AFL Mel}}

| games_goals1 = 6 (0)

| careerhighlights =

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Robert Leslie Rowse (8 September 1926 – 5 May 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2009), p.727.

Rowse was recruited from Ormond in the Victorian Amateur Football Association after they won the 1950 A. Grade premiership.{{cite web |title=1950 - Pennant won on final bell |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22912128 |publisher=The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) |access-date=25 June 2025 |page=12 |date=11 September 1950}}

Rouse was also selected in the 1950 Victorian Amateur Representative team.{{cite web |title=1950 - AMATEURS TO PLAY IN STH. AUSTRALIA |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/178605778 |publisher=Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) |access-date=25 June 2025 |page=16 |date=7 June 1950}}

Rowse won the 1956 Sunraysia Football League best and award, the McLeod Memorial Medal.{{cite web |title=1956 - NEW SYSTEM WANTED FOR CASTING VOTES |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282476251 |publisher=Sunraysia Daily (Mildura, Vic. : 1920 - 1956) |access-date=11 June 2025 |page=8 |date=22 August 1956}}