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Eddie Shaw (Australian footballer)

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Eddie Shaw
Personal information
Full name Edgar Clarence Shaw
Date of birth (1903-07-10)10 July 1903
Place of birth Elsternwick, Victoria
Date of death 25 May 1981(1981-05-25) (aged 77)
Place of death Burwood East, Victoria
Original team(s) Elsternwick Amateurs
Position(s) Wing
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1927 Melbourne 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1927.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Edgar Clarence Shaw (10 July 1903 – 25 May 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

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The son of James Shaw (1869-1952),[2] and Harriet Mary Ann Shaw (1875-1965), née Hanson, Edgar Clarence Shaw was born at Elsternwick, Victoria on 10 July 1903.[3]

He married Elsa Elizabeth "Beth" Theobald at Surrey Hills, Victoria on 17 March 1934.[4][5]

Education

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He was educated at the Elsternwick State School.[6]

Football

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Shaw commenced his football career playing for the Elsternwick Football Club in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association,[6] where he played from 1921 until 1926.[7]

In 1927 he was granted a permit to play with Melbourne,[8] but he only played a single senior game, in which he was not a great success.[9] He returned to Elsternwick by July.[10]

Death

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He died at the Rosden Private Nursing Home in Burwood East, Victoria on 25 May 1981.[11]

Notes

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  1. ^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 807.
  2. ^ Deaths: Shaw, The Age, (Tuesday, 5 August 1952), p. 7.
  3. ^ Birth Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration No.17686/1903.
  4. ^ Weddings: Shaw—Theobald, Table Talk, (Thursday, 12 April 1934), p. 52.
  5. ^ Marriages: Shaw—Theobald, The Age, (Saturday, 14 April 1934), p. 7.
  6. ^ a b "Shaw in Form: Popular Elsternwick Wingman". Sporting Globe. No. 415. Victoria, Australia. 17 July 1926. p. 6.
  7. ^ Metropolitan Amateurs: Elsternwick Premiers, The Argus, (Monday, 24 August 1925), p. 12.
  8. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 25, 185. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1927. p. 27.
  9. ^ "THE TALK OF THE TIMES". The Herald. No. 15, 601. Victoria, Australia. 20 May 1927. p. 13.
  10. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 25, 246. Victoria, Australia. 11 July 1927. p. 7.
  11. ^ Deaths: Shaw, The Age, (Wednesday, 27 May, 1981), p. 20.

References

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  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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