Eddie Shaw (Australian footballer)

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 career^1
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

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

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

Football

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

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

Notes

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. "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

• 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.

External links

• Eddie Shaw's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Eddie Shaw at AustralianFootball.com
• Eddie Shaw at Demonwiki