Harold Shillinglaw Explained

Harold Shillinglaw
Birth Date:2 December 1927
Birth Place:Melbourne, Victoria
Death Place:Melbourne
Originalteam:Collingwood Tech
Height:175 cm
Weight:67 kg
Statsend:1951
Years1:1945–1951
Club1:Fitzroy
Games Goals1:63 (19)

Harold Arthur Edward Shillinglaw (2 December 1927 – 15 April 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Shillinglaw was brought up in Fitzroy and made his debut for their football club in the 1945 VFL season. The Collingwood Tech recruit ended up playing 63 games over seven seasons with Fitzroy.

He also had a brief first-class cricket career, playing three matches for Victoria between 1949–50 and 1953–54, taking 8 wickets at 20.25 with his right-arm medium pace bowling and scoring 88 runs at 17.60.

Shillinglaw played 157 first eleven games of Melbourne District Cricket for Fitzroy Cricket Club between 1943 and 1960.[1]

Shillinglaw also played for Fitzroy in the Melbourne Major Baseball LEague in 1956. On 16 June 1956 he was noted to hit a home run in a tied game against Prahan.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Melbourne Premier Cricket Player Register . Victoria Premier Cricket . 12 March 2021 . 16 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230416201458/http://premier.cricketvictoria.com.au/CV-1st-XI-Player-Register-and-Career-Stats.aspx?rw=c . dead .
  2. The Australian Baseballers News, 21 June 1956