Former Yallourn FC rover ‘Alec’ (James Alexander) Shaw passed away on Thursday, 13th November after a long battle with illness.

As a youngster, Alec was an outstanding athlete and he was regarded as a potential star in local football in the early 1950’s. Such predictions of his ability proved true when, still a teenager, Alec won the senior team award for the Most Improved Player at Yinnar Football Club in 1953. He was also a member of the victorious Yinnar team that defeated Hazelwood in the 1954 Mid Gippsland FL Grand Final.

ANDOR MESZAROS AND THE YALLOURN CENOTAPH
In April 1953 ‘The Argus’ newspaper carried the following report about the day that the Governor of Victoria Sir Dallas Brooks officially unveiled the new Cenotaph in the gardens of Yallourn…

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