Cecil Austen

Australian rules footballer, born 1918

Cec Austen

Born

Victor Cecil Austen

(1918-11-30)30 November 1918

Kew, Victoria

Died

29 October 2017(2017-10-29) (aged 98)^[1]

Nationality

Australian

Australian rules footballer

**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

Batting

Right-hand bat

Bowling

Right-arm fast-medium

Role

Bowler

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1945/46

South 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

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.

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]

Notes

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

References

World War Two Nominal Roll: Flying Officer Victor Cecil Austen (418733), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
A705, 163/89/42: World War Two Accident Record (10 December 1942): Leading Aircraftman Victor Cecil Austen (418733), National Archives of Australia.
World War Two Service Record: Flying Officer Victor Cecil Austen (418733), National Archives of Australia.