In addition to playing hockey at Boston University, Paul Rowe played golf and captained that team in his senior year. In hockey he lettered for three years as a left wing, co-captaining that team his senior year. After his 1935 graduation he made the Olympic team in 1936. After the Olympics, Rowe became a member of the Boston Olympics Amateur Hockey Club (1936-41), playing left wing on the team that won the 1938 National AAU title. He went on to become an executive with an advertising firm, and worked with a prominent insurance company.