Career
Shaw played for Gillingham for two seasons before moving back home up north to Doncaster to play for his local club The following season, 1923-1924, Rovers were selected for promotion back to the Football League for the first time since 1905. His last match for Doncaster was at Walsall on 26 January 1924, after which he transferred to to play in their first of three successive First Division Championship seasons.
He was the elder brother of Wilf Shaw, who also played full back for, until he was killed in action in World World War World War II