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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