Keith Holman
Australia international rugby league footballer, coach and referee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Keith Victor Holman, MBE (11 September 1927 – 11 October 2011) was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs from 1949 to 1961.
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Full name | Keith Victor Holman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1927-09-11)11 September 1927[1] Ballarat, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 11 October 2011(2011-10-11) (aged 84) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 11 st 7 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Halfback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.[4] After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.[5]