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Bob Shaw

Date of birth May 22, 1921
Place of birth Richwood, Ohio
Position(s) Tight End
College Ohio State
NFL Draft 1944 / Round 10
Pro Bowls 1

1945-1949
1950 Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams
Chicago Cardinals
Calgary Stampeders
Team(s) as a coach/administrator
1957-1958
1959

1960-1962
1963-1964
1965-1966
1967-1968
1969-1972

1973-1974
1975-1977
1976-1977
1979 Baltimore Colts (end coach)
San Francisco 49ers (offensive end and backfield coach)
New Mexico Military Institute
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
New Orleans Saints (receivers coach)
Chicago Bears (ends coach)
Buffalo Bills (receivers' coach)
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (GM)
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Arizona (Assistant)

Robert Shaw (born May 22, 1921 in Richwood, Ohio) is a former American football tight end in the National Football 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[citation needed].

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. [1] 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 a 8-20 record from 1965-1966.

Bob Shaw (American football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bob Shaw

As a Buckeye

Two-year letter-winner (1941, '42) who was an All-American in OSU's national championship season of 1942.

As a pro

After serving in Europe during World War II, Shaw returned to football and had a four-year career, three with the Cleveland or Los Angeles Rams and one with the Chicago Cardinals.

The skinny

Shaw made the Pro Bowl in 1950, a season in which he became the first NFL player to catch five touchdown passes in one game. But he never played in the NFL again. Shaw got into a contract dispute with the Cardinals and signed with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He later coached Saskatchewan and Toronto of the CFL.

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Rob Oller commentary: Shaw's life was stuff of Hollywood
Thursday, April 14, 2011
By Rob Oller
The Columbus Dispatch

Dispatch file photo
Bob Shaw was an All-America end on Ohio State's 1942 national championship team. He also played basketball and ran track for the Buckeyes.

Dispatch file photo
Shaw was a gifted athlete and also served in World War II.

Bob Shaw watched his favorite movie more than 50 times, smiling at the memories of a life well-lived as he snuggled in next to his wife, Mary.

As the light reflected off Shaw's face, the images triggered recall: of amazing athletic achievement, of fantastic adventure, of the horrors of war - with love and devotion underpinning it all.

You've probably watched it, too. The film is Forrest Gump. But to Shaw it was just art imitating life. He was an All-American on Ohio State's 1942 national championship team and later helped pioneer the position of tight end with the 1949 Los Angeles Rams. He still shares the NFL record with five touchdown receptions in a game and was receivers coach with the Baltimore Colts in 1958 when they beat the New York Giants to win the NFL championship in what has been called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

But that is just the tip of it.

Brushes with greatness? Shaw's "friends list" included the famous of the day. Johnny Unitas. Paul Brown. Norm Van Brocklin. He appeared in Brian's Song, the movie detailing the friendship between Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo, who died from cancer in 1970.

Scars of war? Shaw served with the 104th Infantry Division during World War II, earning a Bronze Star as the Timberwolf Division fought its way through Europe, eventually liberating the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

Love and adoration? Shaw and his wife were married for 63 years until her death in 2007. It was love at first sight when he spied her selling candy as an usherette at the Ohio Theater while the Buckeyes were Downtown to watch a movie.

Shaw, who died Saturday at home in Westerville at age 89, was a member of the Greatest Generation who grew up during the Great Depression and served in World War II. But time has made Shaw a member of the Forgotten Generation, too.

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Fremont loses a legend
Bob Shaw, a charter member of the Fremont Ross Athletic Hall of Fame and two-sport professional athlete, passed away Saturday
Apr 15, 2011
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Bob Shaw won a national championship playing for Paul Brown at Ohio State before a professional football career that included playing and coaching.
Bob Shaw won a national championship playing for Paul Brown at Ohio State before a professional football career that included playing and coaching. / Photo Courtesy of The Ohio State University

WESTERVILLE -- Bob Shaw, a nine-time letterman at Fremont Ross who went on to play and coach in the Canadian Football League and NFL and play professional basketball, died Saturday at the age of 89.

Shaw was born in Richwood, near Columbus, but his parents relocated to the Fremont area. At Ross, he got three letters each in football, basketball and track.

In 1939, according to unofficial tallies, Shaw led the state in football scoring with 154 points -- still good for fourth all-time in Ross history, according to the Fremont Ross Football Record Book.

Shaw also holds a school record for the longest punt return for a touchdown, at 92 yards against Tiffin Columbian, one of four touchdowns he scored in that game. Shaw, an end, also scored five touchdowns in a game that year against Bowling Green.

He was first team all-Ohio in football and basketball and a state champion in shot put and discus. Shaw was one of the charter inductees into the Fremont Ross Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990.

Shaw went to Ohio State, earning two letters in football under coach Paul Brown and playing for the 1942 national championship team, where he was named an All-American. He also lettered in basketball and track. He was inducted into the Ohio State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

After serving in the Army in the European Theater of World War II and earning a Bronze Star with the 104th Infantry Division, Shaw played football in the NFL and played for the Toledo Jeeps of the National Basketball League -- a forerunner of the NBA.

He played for the 1945 NFL champion Cleveland Rams and is regarded as the first tight end.

While playing for the Chicago Cardinals in 1950, Shaw caught five touchdown passes in one game, an NFL record that has since been tied, but not broken.

After his NFL career was over, Shaw went to Canada and played in the Canadian Football League.

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Ex-Falls coach Shaw dies in Westerville

Published on Thursday, Apr 21, 2011

Former Cuyahoga Falls football coach Robert ''Bob'' Shaw, 89, died April 10 at his home in Westerville after a brief illness.

Mr. Shaw guided the Black Tigers in 1955 and 1956, and then took an NFL job as receivers coach with the Baltimore Colts. Coaching stints followed with the San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints and Buffalo Bills, and as head coach with the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he was the 1976 Coach of the Year.

Mr. Shaw lettered three times each in football, basketball and track at Fremont Ross High School. He was first-team All-Ohio in football and basketball, and won the shot put and discus in the state track and field meet.

Mr. Shaw played at Ohio State University, lettering twice in football under legendary coach Paul Brown. Mr. Shaw played right end ? on both offense and defense ? and was a member of the Buckeyes' first NCAA national championship team in 1942. That season he was named a first-team All-American. He also lettered in basketball and track, helping the Buckeyes to their first Western Conference track crown in 1942. He was enshrined in the OSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Mr. Shaw served with the 104th Infantry Division, earning a Bronze Star as the Timberwolf Division fought its way across Europe. He later completed his bachelor's degree in education at Otterbein College (now Otterbein University) in Westerville.

Mr. Shaw's NFL career began in 1945, when he joined the Cleveland Rams. The Rams won a championship in his rookie year. In the offseason, he played for the Toledo Jeeps of the old National Basketball League.

Mr. Shaw set the record for most touchdown passes (five) caught in one game on Oct. 2, 1950, playing for the Chicago Cardinals against the Baltimore Colts. His record was tied 31 and 40 years later, but has never been broken. He also led the league in touchdowns scored (12) during the 1950 season and was named an All-Pro and played in the first NFL Pro Bowl.

Mr. Shaw also played for the Calgary Stampeders and Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. In Calgary, he was a place-kicker and set a CFL scoring record.

He coached at Washington Court House before coming to Falls. He was also head coach and athletic director at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell in the early 1960s and, after leaving pro football, returned to Otterbein as head coach from 1985 to 1987. Mr. Shaw also served as a scout for the New York Yankees after leaving pro football.

http://www.ohio.com/sports/kent_state/120341269.html