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Harold Shillinglaw

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Harold Shillinglaw
Personal information
Date of birth (1927-12-02)2 December 1927
Place of birth Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 15 April 2016(2016-04-15) (aged 88)
Place of death Melbourne
Original team(s) Collingwood Tech
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 67 kg (148 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1945–1951 Fitzroy 63 (19)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1951.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Harold Arthur Edward Shillinglaw (2 December 1927 – 15 April 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Shillinglaw was brought up in Fitzroy and made his debut for their football club in the 1945 VFL season. The Collingwood Tech recruit ended up playing 63 games over seven seasons with Fitzroy.

He also had a brief first-class cricket career, playing three matches for Victoria between 1949–50 and 1953–54, taking 8 wickets at 20.25 with his right-arm medium pace bowling and scoring 88 runs at 17.60.

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