Career
Schaefer played 102 games for South Melbourne, between 1947 and 1953. A centreman, Schaefer was a Victorian interstate representative in 1948, at the age of just 19. At the end of the 1953 VFL season, Skilton left South Melbourne to be playing coach of Deniliquin.
In 1955, Schaefer was captain-coach of Traralgon.
He died in 1976 after losing his battle with bowel cancer.