Francis Joseph "Shag" Shaughnessy was an American athlete and sports executive.
13 Facts About Frank Shaughnessy
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Frank Shaughnessy played both baseball and football and was an executive in baseball, football and ice hockey.
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Frank Shaughnessy was born in the United States and moved to Canada in the 1910s, where he was involved with football and ice hockey teams in Montreal and Ottawa.
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Frank Shaughnessy was later president of the International League of baseball.
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Frank Shaughnessy played football and baseball at the University of Notre Dame from 1901 to 1904, serving as football captain his senior year.
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Frank Shaughnessy had brief Major League baseball appearances with the Washington Senators in 1905 and the Philadelphia Athletics in 1908.
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Frank Shaughnessy introduced the option play to American football while coaching at Yale University and Cornell University.
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Frank Shaughnessy was football and baseball coach at Clemson University, and football coach at Washington and Lee University.
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Frank Shaughnessy was the first professional coach hired in Canadian university football and his full-time appointment at Montreal's McGill University in 1912 was not well received by the other teams in the league.
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Frank Shaughnessy played baseball during the summer in Ottawa, where he met his wife.
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Frank Shaughnessy became involved in Ottawa sports, and was coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders for the 1915 season.
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In 1969, the Frank Shaughnessy Cup was first presented for local football supremacy between McGill and Loyola College.
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Frank Shaughnessy was inducted as a builder into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983, its inaugural induction year, and the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.