Later Life and Legacy
After winning the 1960 NFL Championship, Coach Shaw went back to California to work for a paper products company, and spent the later years of his life in Menlo Park. He and his wife had two married daughters who also lived in California.
In 1962, led by Sal Sanfilippo (SCU ’30, J.D. SCU '32), former players, friends, and fans of Shaw banded together to form the Bronco Bench Foundation to raise money for and build a football stadium on the Santa Clara University campus in his honor. On September 22, 1962, the first football game, a contest between Santa Clara and UC Davis, was played in Buck Shaw Stadium.
On March 20, 1977, Shaw died at the age of 77 at Stanford University's Branch Convalescent Hospital.
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