A keen sportsman, he listed his hobbies as association football, swimming, cricket and tennis.
Crawshaw moved to Nelson in February 1923 for a transfer fee of £100 as a replacement for the previous inside-left Mike McCulloch.
During his first part-season with Nelson, he scored five goals in 13 matches as the side achieved promotion to the Football League Second Division.
[1] In the next campaign, he played 19 times and scored five goals but could not prevent Nelson being relegated after finishing 21st in the division.
[3] At the end of the 1923–24 season, he left Nelson and retired from professional football, having scored 16 goals in a total of 64 league matches.