Bill Austin (American football)

Bill Austin
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Position Back
Career history
High school Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
Personal information
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Career highlights and awards
First-team All-American (1958)

Bill Austin is a former American football player. He played as a back for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team from 1956 to 1958 and was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1958 College Football All-America Team.[1][2] He finished sixth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1956,[3] and he rushed for 2,073 yards and scored 204 points during his college football career at Rutgers.[4]

A resident of Camarillo, California who spent most of his professional career as an executive of a number of bicycle manufacturers, Austin grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey and played football at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, graduating in 1955.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Iowa's Randy Duncan Heads AP's All-American Team". Salisbury Times (Salisbury, Maryland).
  2. ↑ "Randy Hawkins Heads A.P. All-America Team". Reading Eagle. December 4, 1958. p. 34.
  3. ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1958.html
  4. ↑ "Rutgers Football All-Americans". Rutgers University. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ O'Gorman, George. "Rutgers' Bill Austin to be honored by NJ Sportswriters", The Trentonian, January 24, 2011. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Now 74 years old and living in Camarillo, Calif. Austin is still a football legend in New Jersey, and especially on the banks of the Raritan.... Austin, a Fanwood native who earned high school stardom at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High, earned All-American honors in two sports at Rutgers as a senior."
  6. ↑ Staff. "New inductees to Scotch Plains-Fanwood H.S. Hall of Fame", Suburban News, October 9, 2014. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Slated for induction are: William Austin. Class of 1955. Bill is in the Rutgers Hall of Fame as an All-American football player, who was drafted by the Washington Redskins."
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