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Colin ‘Col’ Austen (1920–1995) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL from 1941 to 1943 and then again from 1946 to 1949. He then played for the Richmond Football Club from 1950 to 1952.He tied with South Melbourne’s Ron Clegg for the 1949 Brownlow Medal but was not awarded it based on the ‘countback’ system in place at that time.
