[5] Although he won a number of major championship titles he is perhaps best known for something he did not do – complete the tennis Grand Slam in 1933, five years before Don Budge accomplished the feat for the first time in 1938.

[6] An asthmatic who suffered in the muggy summer heat of Forest Hills, Crawford was leading the Englishman Fred Perry in the final of the US Championships by two sets to one when his strength began to fade.

1 amateur in 1933 by A. Wallis Myers,[7] Bernard Brown,[8] Pierre Gillou,[9] Didier Poulain,[10] John R. Tunis[11][12] (The Literary Digest), Harry Hopman[13] (Melbourne Herald), Alfred Chave (Brisbane Telegraph),[14] "Set" (The West Australian)[15] and Ellsworth Vines.

Historically, he was competing in his tenth straight major final, a record matched only by Big Bill Tilden and then joined by Roger Federer.

[18] Crawford was a right-handed baseline player with a game that was based more on technical skills and accuracy than on power.