Vautin was born in Orielton, Tasmania and died in the Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne.

[2] Vautin was from Tasmania and played at the City Football Club in Hobart.

A rover, he represented his league in 1889 in an away series in Victoria, impressing the Essendon recruiters who signed him up for the 1892 VFA season and he was a key part of their premiership teams over the next three seasons.

Vautin was also a cricketer, playing a first-class match for Tasmania in 1889/90[3] and another for Victoria in 1894/95.

[5] This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1860s is a stub.