Clem Crowe

Clem Crowe
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball, golf
Biographical details
Born	(1903-10-18)October 18, 1903 Lafayette, Indiana
Died	April 13, 1983(1983-04-13) (aged 79)
Playing career
1923–1925	Notre Dame
Position(s)	End (football) Forward (basketball)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1926–1931 1936–1943 1944 1945 1949 1950 1951 1956–1958 Basketball 1928–1932 1933–1943 1944–1945	Saint Vincent Xavier Notre Dame (assistant) Iowa Buffalo Bills Baltimore Colts Ottawa Rough Riders BC Lions Saint Vincent Xavier Notre Dame
Head coaching record
Overall	71–66–5 (college football) 152–115 (college basketball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Clem F. Crowe (October 18, 1903 – April 13, 1983) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Saint Vincent College (1926–1931), Xavier University (1936–1943), and the University of Iowa (1945), compiling a career college football record of 71–66–5. Crowe was also the head basketball coach at Saint Vincent College (1928–1932), Xavier (1933–1943), and the University of Notre Dame (1944–1945), tallying a career college basketball mark of 152–115. He later coached professional football for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference, and the Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.

Player career

Crowe played college football and basketball at the University of Notre Dame. He earned three letters in basketball and was a basketball All-American. He also earned three letters in football under Coach Knute Rockne. Crowe played football from 1923–1925 and was a two-time All-American. He played end for Notre Dame's "Seven Mule" team and was named Notre Dame's football captain in 1925.

College coaching career

After graduation, Crowe took a position as a coach at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. There he coached the football team from 1926–1931, compiling a record of 23–27–3, and the basketball team from 1928–1932, tallying a 41–31 mark in four seasons.

Crowe left Saint Vincent in 1932 and took a job at Xavier University. He coached the Xavier basketball team from 1933–1943 and had a 96–79 record in ten seasons. He also coached the Xavier football team from 1935–1943 and compiled a 46–32–2 record. In addition, Crowe was a baseball coach and a golf coach at Xavier. He was inducted into the Xavier University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.

Crowe left Xavier in 1943 and returned to his alma mater. He was an assistant football coach at Notre Dame in 1944 and the head basketball coach for the 1944–1945 season.

In 1945, Crowe was hired on an interim basis as the 17th head football coach at the University of Iowa while Iowa's regular coach, Eddie Anderson, was serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. Following Crowe's one season, in which he had a 2–7 record, Anderson returned, and Crowe left the Iowa football program.

Professional coaching career

Crowe resurfaced in 1949 as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference, going 5–5–2. When the Buffalo franchise folded, he left to coach the Baltimore Colts in 1950. He had a 1–11 record, and after the season, that franchise folded as well.

Crowe then headed north to Canada and agreed to coach the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in 1951. In his first season in Ottawa, he led the Rough Riders to the Grey Cup. He later left Ottawa for the BC Lions. He was a head coach in Vancouver from 1956–1958. Crowe died in 1983 at age 79.

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Saint Vincent Bearcats () (1926–1931)
1926	Saint Vincent	3–5
1927	Saint Vincent	1–6–1
1928	Saint Vincent	6–3
1929	Saint Vincent	4–4–1
1930	Saint Vincent	4–6
1931	Saint Vincent	5–3–1
Saint Vincent:		23–27–3
Xavier Musketeers () (1936–1943)
1936	Xavier	6–4
1937	Xavier
1938	Xavier	7–2
1939	Xavier
1940	Xavier	7–3
1941	Xavier	9–1
1942	Xavier
1943	Xavier
Xavier:		46–32–2
Iowa Hawkeyes (Big Ten Conference) (1945)
1945	Iowa	2–7	1–5	T–8th
Iowa:		2–7	1–5
Total:		71–66–5
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title

External links

• Clem Crowe at the College Football Data Warehouse
• Clem Crowe at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
• Xavier Hall of Fame profile