Cecil Austen

Victor Cecil Austen (30 November 1918 – 29 October 2017)[2] was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for South Australia and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Hawthorn.

Cec Austen
Born
Victor Cecil Austen

(1918-11-30)30 November 1918
Kew, Victoria
Died29 October 2017(2017-10-29) (aged 98)[1]
NationalityAustralian
Australian rules football career
Personal information
Original team(s) Kew
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1942 Hawthorn 5 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Cricket information
BattingRight-hand bat
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1945/46South Australia
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 4
Batting average 2.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 2
Balls bowled –
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 April 2018

Family

The son of Harold Cecil Austen (1883–1974), and Violet Hilda Austen (1891–1981), née Beer, Victor Cecil Austen was born at Kew, Victoria on 30 November 1918.

His son, the 1982 Liston Trophy winner Geoffrey Allen Austen (1953-), played senior VFL football with both Fitzroy and Collingwood, and VFA football with Preston; and both his brothers — the 1949 Brownlow Medal winner, Colin Edward Austen (1920–1995), and Albert William "Bob" Austen (1914–1999) — also played senior VFL football at Hawthorn.

Football

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.

War Service

Austen served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.[3]

Cricket

Austen’s 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. He was dismissed twice by George Tribe, a man who also played in the VFL.[4]

See also

Notes
  1. Victor Cecil Austen's death notice
  2. Booth, Lawrence (2018). Wisden Cricketer's Almanack. p. 235. ISBN 978-1472953544.
  3. "Hawthorn War Service". Hawthorn Football Club. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  4. "South Australia v Victoria 1945/46". CricketArchive.

References
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