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Keith Holman (Keith Victor Holman) was born on 11 September, 1927 in Ballarat, Australia, is an Australia international rugby league footballer, coach and referee. Discover Keith Holman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As Keith Victor Holman
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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 11 September, 1927
Birthday 11 September
Birthplace Ballarat, Australia
Date of death 11 October, 2011
Died Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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Keith Holman Height, Weight & Measurements

At 84 years old, Keith Holman height is 5 ft and Weight 11 st.

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1927

Keith Victor Holman, MBE (11 September 1927 – 11 October 2011) was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative whose club career was played with Western Suburbs from 1949 to 1961.

He has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.

After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees.

1948

With Bennett's help, he landed a contract with the Magpies in 1948 and quickly rose through the ranks, playing with the Magpies until 1961.

In thirteen seasons at Wests he never played in a premiership-winning team at club level.

1950

Holman started his representative career with selection for New South Wales in 1950 and continued to represent the Blues until 1958.

Also in 1950, Holman made his test debut for Australia, figuring prominently in Australia's first Ashes conquest in 30 years.

Holman was the Australian selectors preferred halfback choice and regular in Test sides and World Cup squads from 1950 to 1958.

By the end of his representative career he had amassed the then record of 32 Tests and a then record of 14 Anglo-Australian international appearances, beating Clive Churchill and Sandy Pearce.

He made 12 Test appearances against France and 6 appearances against New Zealand.

1951

He was selected to represent Sydney against France during their 1951 tour of Australasia in a match that ended in a 19-all draw.

He was named New South Wales Player of the Year three times – 1951, 1956 and 1958.

When his playing days were over he turned to refereeing.

1952

He missed Wests' premiership victory in 1952 because he was selected for that year's Kangaroo tour.

He made both the 1952 Kangaroo tour (5 Tests and 5 tour matches) and the 1956–57 tour (all 6 Tests plus 11 tour matches).

1954

He was captain-coach at Wests for seasons 1954 and 1955.

1965

He was consistent first grade referee in 155 games from 1965 till 1974.

1971

In a 1971 game between Queensland and New South Wales, Holman sent off three players.

Holman controlled the 1971 Grand Final and went on to referee the Tests of New Zealand's tour of Australia in 1972.

1975

He coached a Port Kembla side in 1975 and 1976 and then Western Suburbs in the NSWRFL.

1977

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.

Holman was born in Ballarat, Australia.

Holman had an impoverished childhood during the Great Depression.

In his earliest years he was raised in a shanty at Yarra Bay in Sydney by a man named Holman who may have been his father.

He was taken in by a local family named Schofield who enabled him to be schooled by the De La Salle Brothers at Surry Hills.

There he met and befriended Bernie Purcell whom he would later play against and alongside in state and Kangaroo touring sides.

Toward the end of the Second World War Holman joined the RAAF as a Leading Aircraftman.

He was a chef with 82 Wing, 23 Squadron and was posted to bases in Ipswich, Queensland and later after the Japanese surrender, at Morakai and Balikpapan in Borneo.

The Squadron flew B-24 Liberators in a transport role, flying ex-Prisoners of War and other Australian personnel back to Australia.

After the war he trialled for a contract with South Sydney but was turned away due to his small stature.

An approach to Manly was also unsuccessful so he headed to Dubbo and befriended former Wests Eric Bennett.

His final year active year in rugby league was 1977 when he coached his beloved Wests to victory in the 1977 Amco Cup.

He had the rare honour of being made a life member of Western Suburbs while still playing.

1983

Keith Holman was awarded Life Membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1983.

He was later selected in the Wests Tigers Team of the Century and the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Century.

2003

In 2003 he was admitted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.

2007

In 2007 Holman was selected by a panel of experts at halfback in an Australian 'Team of the 50s'.

2008

In February 2008, Holman was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.

Also in 2008 the Western Suburbs Magpies celebrated their centenary by inducting six inaugural members into the club's Hall of Fame.

These six included Holman.