[3] After completing training at Broadmeadows and then serving for five months overseas, Utting was returned to Australia from Egypt after he was diagnosed with a heart condition.

After four years with Collingwood he left the club and joined Hawthorn who were then in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

Playing mainly in the back pocket, he polled well in the Brownlow Medal during his career and finished in the top 10 on three occasions.

[5] Utting died suddenly at his home in Hawthorn in 1948[6] and is buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery.

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