Early Life
The youngest of eleven children, Cable was born in Narrogin, a country town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. His father, Edward, died when he was six, and he was raised by his Aboriginal mother, Dorothy, from whom he got his blonde hair. Cable spent much of his childhood playing football – aged eleven, he was reprimanded by his school headmaster for devoting too much time to playing. Cable debuted for the senior side of his local club, the Narrogin Imperials in the Upper Great Southern Football League (UGSFL), at the age of fifteen. After spending two years as a butcher's apprentice, Cable moved to Perth, the capital of Western Australia, to attempt to play in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).
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