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.
[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).