Wayne Shaw | |
Birth Place: | Bladworth, Saskatchewan |
Status: | Retired |
Import: | no |
Position1: | Linebacker |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 0 |
Weight Lbs: | 210 |
High School: | Athol Murray College of Notre Dame |
College: | none |
Honors: | 1994 Plaza of Honor |
Cflwestallstar: | ,,,,, |
Playing Years1: | – |
Playing Team1: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Wayne Shaw (born 1939) is a retired outside linebacker who played twelve seasons for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.[1]
He is the brother of former Canadian football linebacker Cliff Shaw.[2]
Educated at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Shaw played football for The Notre Dame Hounds and Saskatoon Hilltops before joining the Roughriders in 1961.
Wayne Shaw was a 6-time Western Division all-star player at the linebacker position. Shaw helped the Roughriders win the 54th Grey Cup of 1966 by a score of 29-14. He also played in the 55th Grey Cup of 1967 and the 57th Grey Cup of 1969, losses to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders.
After his football career, Shaw ran a retail store in Winnipeg, Manitoba for 10 years. He returned to Saskatchewan where he owned and operated a bookstore in Saskatoon up to his retirement in 2009, at which time he donated thousands of books to the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame.
Seen in game 3 of the 1970 Western Conference finals in its entirety