Herbert "Tubby" Lowe

Neillsville, Clark Co., Wisconsin

Neillsville’s first try at a football team lives strongly in Kelly’s memory.  That try came in his first years in the school system, while the late Harvey Schofield was the principal.  Schofield, who at the time of his death, was president of the Eau Claire State Teachers College, was a big, raw-boned young man who had starred on the University of Wisconsin foot-ball team before coming to Neillsville.

Herbert (Tubby) Lowe and some of his schoolmates decided that with Schofield’s coaching they ought to have a football team.  Schofield reluctantly consented to give it a whirl.  So for a few afternoons they practiced and thought they were getting along well.

It was then that Schofield gave up.

"You fellows don’t really want to play football," he declared.  "All you want to do is keep out of each other’s way."

And that was the end of football in the high school for the time being.

Saxophone Musicians, Left to right: Matthew Scherer, Leo Miller, Tubby Lowe & Bob Lee

1900 Federal Census, Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin

Name: Geo Herbert Lowe
Age: 6
Birth Date: Jun 1893
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relationship to Head of House: Son
Father's name: Jos B Lowe
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's name: Mary Lowe
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Marital Status: Single
Household Members
Jos B Lowe 44
Mary Lowe 39
Lucy Lowe 16
Florence Lowe 13
Nancy Lowe 10
Geo Herbert Lowe 6
Edith L Lowe 4
Nancy Lowe 88
 

1920 Federal Census, Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin

Name: Herbert Lowe 
Age: 26 (1894)
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Head of House
Spouse's name: Ella Lowe
Father's Birth Place: England
Mother's Birth Place: Michigan
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members
Herbert Lowe 26
Ella Lowe 25

Contributors

Norma Telford & Janet Schwarze