Education
Ohio State University.
basketball player gridiron football player
Ohio State University.
Shaw lettered three times each in football, basketball and track at Fremont Ross High School. At Ohio State University, he lettered twice in football. Playing right end, on both offense and defense, Shaw was part of the Buckeyes" first National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championship team in 1942 and was named a first-team All American for that season.
He also lettered in basketball and track, helping the Buckeyes to their first Western Conference track crown in 1942.
Shaw was inducted into Ohio State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996. He served with the 104th Infantry Division, and was awarded a Bronze Star.
He later completed his bachelor"s degree in education at Otterbein College. His National Football League career began in 1945 when he joined the Cleveland Rams.
In the off-season, he played for the Toledo Jeeps of the National Basketball League.
He played for the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (1945–1949) and the Chicago Cardinals (1950). He was the NFL leader in receiving touchdowns with 12 in 1950 and was the first player to catch five touchdowns in a game. After his retirement, Shaw served as an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts, and San Francisco 49ers before becoming head coach of the New Mexico Military Institute in 1960.
In three seasons at NMMI, Shaw had a 22–6–1 record.
He later moved to the Canadian Football League where he coached the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 16–14–2 record over two seasons and the Toronto Argonauts to an 8–20 record from 1965 to 1966. He lived in Cooksville during his time coaching the Argos.
Shaw died April 10, 2011 at his home in Westerville, Ohio, after a brief illness at the age of 89.