Bill Austin (American football, born 1937)

Bill Austin (born c. 1937 - 2015)[1] was an 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 All-America Team.[2][3] He finished sixth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1958,[4] and he rushed for 2,073 yards and scored 204 points during his college football career at Rutgers.[5]

Bill Austin

Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Position	Back
Career history
High school	Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
Personal information
Born:	c. 1937
Died:	2015 (aged 78)
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Career highlights and awards
First-team All-American (1958)

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.[6][7]

References

1. "Rutgers football, lax great Bill Austin dies at age 78". APP. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
2. "Iowa's Randy Duncan Heads AP's All-American Team". Salisbury Times. Salisbury, Maryland.
3. "Randy Hawkins Heads A.P. All-America Team". Reading Eagle. December 4, 1958. p. 34.
4. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1958.html
5. "Rutgers Football All-Americans". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
6. 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."
7. 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."