Cecil Austen

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Glenelg Career Highlights
GFC League Player Number: 285 GFC League Debut: Round 9, 1943 Glenelg 1943 – 1946 33 games 57 goals
Other Career Highlights
Hawthorn (VFL) 1942 5 games, 6 goals

Biographical

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Career

Victor Cecil Austen (30 November 1918 – 29 October 2017) commenced his playing with the Bays with the combined West-Glenelg side during World War II.

He was born in Kew, Victoria.

Austen played five games for Hawthorn in the 1942 VFL season, with the highlight coming in his second game when he kicked four goals against St Kilda at Toorak Park. His brother Colin also played at Hawthorn and had a more successful career, winning a Brownlow Medal in 1949.

His only first-class cricket match was for South Australia against Victoria at the Adelaide Oval where he struggled, taking 0/77 with the ball and making two in both of his innings.

References

1. Pride of the Bay

2. Wikipedia article