Buck Shaw
Shaw pictured in The Agromeck 1925, North Carolina State yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 28, 1899 Mitchellville, Iowa |
| Died | March 19, 1977 (aged 77) Menlo Park, California |
| Playing career | |
| 1918 | Creighton |
| 1919–1921 | Notre Dame |
| Position(s) | Tackle, placekicker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1924 | NC State |
| 1925–1928 | Nevada |
| 1929–1935 | Santa Clara (line) |
| 1936–1942 | Santa Clara |
| 1945 | California |
| 1946–1954 | San Francisco 49ers |
| 1956–1957 | Air Force |
| 1958–1960 | Philadelphia Eagles |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 72–49–12 (college) 91–55–5 (AAFC/NFL) |
| Bowls | 2–0 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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| NFL Championship (1960) | |
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All-American Tackle all-time "Fighting Irish" football team (player) AP & UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1960) Iowa Sports Hall of Fame San Francisco Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Santa Clara University Hall of Fame |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1972 (profile) |
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Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw (March 28, 1899 – March 19, 1977) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach for Santa Clara University, the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco 49ers, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he became a star player on Knute Rockne's first unbeaten team. He started his coaching career with one year as head coach at North Carolina State and four years as a line coach at the University of Nevada.
As a coach at Santa Clara, he compiled an impressive 47–10–4 record. In 1937 and 1938, his teams posted back-to-back Sugar Bowl wins over LSU. After war-time service, he served in 1945 as the head football coach at the University of California, where he compiled a 4–5–1 record. Shaw was the San Francisco 49ers' first head coach in the old All-America Football Conference and continued in that position from 1950 through 1954, when they entered the National Football League. After two seasons (1956–1957) as the first Air Force Academy Varsity head coach he returned to the NFL.
Shaw was born 10 miles east of Des Moines, Iowa in Mitchellville on March 28, 1899 to Tim and Margaret Shaw, who were cattle ranchers. He was one of five children along with brothers Bill, Jim, and John and a sister, Mary. When Shaw was 10, the family moved to Stuart, Iowa, where high school football had been abolished because of a fatality. He played only four games as a prep after the sport was brought back in 1917, his senior year.
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