 He was an assistant football coach at Notre Dame in 1944 and the head basketball coach for the 1944–45 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.