Billy Shaw, a Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame offensive lineman and Payments legend, died on Friday.
He was 85.
Shaw died because of hyponatremia (a situation the place sodium within the blood is abnormally low), in accordance with his household.
His spouse and three daughters have been by his aspect, per the Payments.
He was inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 1999 after a profession in soccer wherein he was an eight-time AFL All-Star within the Sixties.
“Billy Shaw holds the excellence of being the one member of the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame to play his complete profession within the American Soccer League, however whereas that reality is worthy of noting and good to recite, it comes nowhere close to offering the explanation he was elected as a member of the Class of 1999,” Corridor of Fame president Jim Porter mentioned in an announcement.
“Billy’s all-around athleticism introduced a brand new dimension to the guard place and made the Sixties Buffalo Payments a formidable opponent able to bruising opponents with a punishing speeding assault. And whereas Billy may very well be unforgiving to anybody in his manner on the soccer subject, he was the traditional instance of the ‘Southern gents’ off the sector to everybody he encountered.”
Shaw was drafted into the AFL (by the Payments) and the NFL (by the Cowboys) in 1961 after a profitable school profession at Georgia Tech, which noticed him earn first-team All-SEC honors in 1960.
Shaw ultimately determined to play for the Payments within the AFL from 1961-69, profitable two AFL titles with the workforce in 1964 and 1965.
He was an AP All-Professional 5 instances earlier than retiring after the 1969 season.
