Colin Dixon

Colin J. "Dicko" Dixon (3 December 1943 – 21 June 1993) born in Butetown, was a Welsh rugby union and professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and rugby league coach of the 1970s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Cardiff International Athletic Club, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Halifax (captain), Salford, and Hull Kingston Rovers, as a Centre, Second-row, or Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 3 or 4, 11 or 12, or 13, and coaching club level rugby league (RL) for Salford, he is a Halifax Hall of Fame Inductee, he died in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Dixon, like Gus Risman and Billy Boston, was a product of South Church Street School in Cardiff's Butetown. Playing in the Cardiff RFC Youth team, he was already showing something of his future potential but was overlooked by Wales (RU) Youth. As a seventeen-year-old he signed for Halifax in 1961. Initially he played as a Centre, providing many tries for his Wing John "Johnny" Freeman, by coincidence also a former pupil of South Church Street School, but it was not until he moved to the back row of the pack in 1963 that he revealed his tremendous power. Dixon played Centre, i.e. number 4, in Halifax's 10-0 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1963 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1963–64 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 2 November 1963. In 1964 he was a key player in the first Halifax side to win the championship since 1907.