Shelton played only 12 senior games for Hawthorn, in three seasons, but performed well enough in the reserves to win a Gardiner Medal in 1959.
[1] He had been just five years of age when his father, Jack, died at Tobruk in World War II.
Jack Shelton had played league football for St Kilda and South Melbourne.
[2] Their grandfather, Richard, father of Jack, was famously saved from drowning in the swollen Hughes creek at Avenel by Ned Kelly.
[3] He is a founding partner of Allard Shelton Pty Ltd, leading Commercial Real Estate agents.