Jock Austin
| Jock Austin | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Herbert George Austin[1] | ||
| Nickname | Jock | ||
| Born |
16 March 1938[1][2] Framlingham, Victoria | ||
| Died | 3 May 1990 (aged 52)[1][3] | ||
| Coaching career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1980s | Fitzroy Stars | ||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Herbert George "Jock" Austin (16 March 1938 − 3 May 1990) was an Indigenous Australian community leader.[4] He was a Gunditjmara man who served as the coach and president of the Fitzroy Stars Football Club in its early years.[5]
His son, Troy Austin, is also a former Fitzroy Stars president and currently serves as a member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria after being elected in 2023.[6][7]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Austin was born in 1938 under a gumtree at Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve as the son of Ella Clark and Cyril Austin.[2] He had 11 siblings.[8]
He moved to the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1950s where met Patricia Prior, whom he raised two children with.[8] He participated in Australian rules football and boxing, while also working as a boilermaker and having a job laying tramway track.[8]
Austin founded the Melbourne Aboriginal Youth Sport and Recreation Co-operative (MAYSAR), an Aboriginal youth sport centre and boxing gym, in 1982.[2][9][10]
In the 1970s, Austin became associated with the newly-formed Fitzroy Stars Football Club, a football club run by Indigenous Australians.[11] He introduced the club's first junior team in 1978.[12] After the Northern Metropolitan Football League, which the Stars were competing in, disbanded in 1980, Austin was a driving force in the club staying afloat.[12]
When the YCW Football League (YCWFL) folded in 1986, the Stars applied for entry in 36 local competitions, but received rejections from every single one.[12] As a result, Austin (who was also serving as club administrator) formed the Melbourne North Football League (MNFL) in 1989.[12][13]
References
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