[1] He graduated from Rock Island High School before attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers.

During his junior year in 1962, the Badgers were Big Ten Conference champions and played USC in the Rose Bowl.

[4] On that play, Bowman and Jerry Kramer executed a wedge block on Jethro Pugh to clear a path into for Starr.

Bowman ended his 11-year professional career in 1975 in Honolulu with The Hawaiians of the struggling World Football League,[4] which folded on October 22.

[4] Bowman was one of the fifteen plaintiffs in Mackey v. National Football League in which Judge Earl R. Larson declared that the Rozelle rule was a violation of antitrust laws on December 30, 1975.