14 Facts About Clem Crowe

Clem F Crowe was an American gridiron football and basketball player and coach.

Clem Crowe later coached professional football for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference and National Football League, and the Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.

Clem Crowe played college football and basketball at the University of Notre Dame.

Clem Crowe earned three letters in basketball and was a basketball All-American.

Clem Crowe earned three letters in football under Coach Knute Rockne.

Clem Crowe played football from 1923 to 1925 and was a two-time All-American.

Clem Crowe played end for Notre Dame's "Seven Mule" team and was named Notre Dame's football captain in 1925.

Clem Crowe left Saint Vincent in 1932 and took a job at Xavier University.

Clem Crowe was inducted into the Xavier University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.

Clem Crowe left Xavier in 1943 and returned to his alma mater.

In 1945, Clem 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 US Army Medical Corps during World War II.

Clem Crowe then headed north to Canada and agreed to coach the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in 1951.

Clem Crowe was a head coach in Vancouver from 1956 to 1958.

Clem Crowe died in Rochester, New York, on April 13,1983, at age 79.