Murray Norcross Shelton (April 20, 1893 – August 14, 1985) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player. Born in

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, Shelton graduated from

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in 1916 and was a member of the

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. In 1973, he was elected to the

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. In 1984, he was also inducted into Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame. Shelton died on August 14, 1985, in

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. He was 92.

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Murray Shelton
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Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame
1893 births 1985 deaths Buffalo All-Americans players Cornell Big Red football players All-American college football players American football ends College Football Hall of Fame inductees People from Dunkirk, New York Sportspeople from Chautauqua County, New York Players of American football from New York (state) {{collegefootball-player-stub