Cecil Austen
# Cecil Austen

Victor Cecil Austen (30 November 1918 – 29 October 2017) 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.

## 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.

