George Shaw
Fitzroy
AFL career
5 games1 goals
- Debut
- R10 1898 v STK16 July 1898
- Most recent
- R14 1898 v SME20 Aug 1898
Stats
Bio
George Shaw was a Ballarat native who earned a brief call-up to Fitzroy during the club's historic first VFL premiership season. Recruited from the local Fitzroy Crescent club, he provided a tall option at 180cm and broke into the senior side midway through the 1898 campaign. Shaw managed to boot a goal during his five senior appearances, but he found it difficult to hold his place in a dominant lineup stacked with stars like Mick Grace and Alec Sloan. While he was ultimately omitted before the finals and missed out on the Grand Final victory over Essendon, Shaw played his part as a squad member in the Maroons' breakthrough premiership year before his short-lived top-level career came to a close.
Profile
- Full name
- George F. Shaw
- Born
- 06 Mar 1877
- Died
- 24 Mar 1954 (aged 77y 18d)
- Birthplace
- Ballarat, VIC
- Deathplace
- Blackburn, VIC
Teams
Bio
1 revisionGeorge Shaw was a Ballarat native who earned a brief call-up to Fitzroy during the club's historic first VFL premiership season. Recruited from the local Fitzroy Crescent club, he provided a tall option at 180cm and broke into the senior side midway through the 1898 campaign. Shaw managed to boot a goal during his five senior appearances, but he found it difficult to hold his place in a dominant lineup stacked with stars like Mick Grace and Alec Sloan. While he was ultimately omitted before the finals and missed out on the Grand Final victory over Essendon, Shaw played his part as a squad member in the Maroons' breakthrough premiership year before his short-lived top-level career came to a close.