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Clem Crowe 
Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball, golf Biographical details Born October 18, 1903 Place of birth Lafayette, Indiana Died April 13, 1983 (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 DameHead 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.
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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 References
External links
- Clem Crowe at the College Football Data Warehouse
- Clem Crowe at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
- Xavier Hall of Fame profile
Saint Vincent Bearcats head football coaches Marion Cleary (1923) • Jake Bohren (1924–1925) • Clem Crowe (1926–1931) • Red Edwards (1932–1945) • No team (1943–1944) • Red Edwards (1946) • Bap Manzini (1947) • Al DeLuca (1948–1962) • No team (1963–2006) • Bob Colbert (2007– )
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball head coaches Harry Gilligan (1919–1920) • Joe Meyer (1920–1933) • Clem Crowe (1933–1943) • No team (1943–1945) • Ed Burns (1945–1946) • Lew Hirt (1946–1951) • Ned Wulk (1951–1957) • Jim McCafferty (1957–1963) • Don Ruberg (1963–1967) • George Krajack (1967–1971) • Dick Campbell (1971–1973) • Tay Baker (1973–1979) • Bob Staak (1979–1985) • Pete Gillen (1985–1994) • Skip Prosser (1994–2001) • Thad Matta (2001–2004) • Sean Miller (2004–2009) • Chris Mack (2009– )
Xavier Musketeers head football coaches No coach (1900–1917) • Albert B. Lambert (1918–1919) • Joe Meyer (1920–1935) • Clem Crowe (1936–1943) • No team (1944–1945) • Philip H. Bucklew (1946) • Edward L. Kluska (1947–1954) • Harry W. Connelly (1955–1958) • Ed Doherty (1959–1961) • Ed Biles (1962–1968) • Irvin A. Etlar (1969) • Richard J. Selcer (1970–1971) • Thomas A. Cecchini (1972–1973)
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball head coaches Frank E. Hering (1898) • J. Fred Powers (1899) • No team (1899–1907) • Bertram Maris (1907–1912) • Bill Nelson (1912–1913) • Jesse Harper (1913–1918) • Gus Dorais (1918–1920) • Walter Halas (1920–1923) • George Keogan (1923–1943) • Moose Krause (1943–1944) • Clem Crowe (1944–1945) • Elmer Ripley (1945–1946) • Moose Krause (1946–1951) • John Jordan (1951–1964) • John Dee (1964–1971) • Digger Phelps (1971–1991) • John MacLeod (1991–1999) • Matt Doherty (1999–2000) • Mike Brey (2000–)
Iowa Hawkeyes head football coaches No coach (1889–1891) • E. A. Dalton (1892) • Ben "Sport" Donnelly (1893) • Roger Sherman (1894) • No coach (1895) • Alfred E. Bull (1896) • Otto Wagonhurst (1897) • Alden Knipe (1898–1902) • John Chalmers (1903–1905) • Mark Catlin, Sr. (1906–1908) • John G. Griffith (1909) • Jesse Hawley (1910–1915) • Howard Jones (1916–1923) • Burt Ingwersen (1924–1931) • Ossie Solem (1932–1936) • Irl Tubbs (1937–1938) • Eddie Anderson (1939–1942) • Slip Madigan (1943–1944) • Clem Crowe (1945) • Eddie Anderson (1946–1949) • Leonard Raffensperger (1950–1951) • Forest Evashevski (1952–1960) • Jerry Burns (1961–1965) • Ray Nagel (1966–1970) • Frank Lauterbur (1971–1973) • Bob Commings (1974–1978) • Hayden Fry (1979–1998) • Kirk Ferentz (1999– )
Baltimore Colts head coaches Cecil Isbell (1947–1949) • Walter Driskill (1949) • Clem Crowe (1950)
Categories:- Ottawa Rough Riders coaches
- 1903 births
- 1983 deaths
- American basketball coaches
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- Iowa Hawkeyes football coaches
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coaches
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball coaches
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball players
- Saint Vincent Bearcats football coaches
- Xavier Musketeers football coaches
- Xavier Musketeers men's basketball coaches
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- People from Lafayette, Indiana
- Players of American football from Indiana
- Basketball players from Indiana
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