Career
Shillinglaw was brought up in Fitzroy and made his debut for their football club in the 1945 VFL season. The Collingwood Technical recruit ended up playing 63 games over seven seasons with Fitzroy. He also had a brief cricket career, playing three first-class matches for Victoria for whom he took 8 wickets at 20.25 with his right-arm medium pace bowling and scored 88 runs at 17.60 between 1949/50 and 1953/54.