Keith Holliday

Keith Holliday (birth registered 6 April 1934 – 9 March 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and Yorkshire (captain), and at club level for Eastmoor ARLFC,Wakefield Trinity (captain) (Heritage № 600), and Bramley, as a Centre, Stand-off/Five-eighth, or Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 3 or 4, 6, or 7, and coaching at club level for Bramley. Keith Holliday was a pupil at Cathedral School.

One of the most under-rated players in Wakefield Trinity’s history is three-time Wembley winner, Keith Holliday. The wily scrum half was one of the club’s great servants and ranks sixth on the club’s all-time appearance list, with ten winner's medals, as well as county and international recognition.

Holliday's Trinity career spanned fourteen years (1952–66); he played 438 times. Only Neil Fox has played more post-war Trinity games. He was an outstanding local product and arrived at Belle Vue via Cathedral School and Eastmoor. He progressed through the intermediate and A-teams before making his début in the first match of the 1952–53 season, scoring a try in a 30–21 victory over Doncaster.

Holliday made steady progress, starting out as a stand off and alternating in the centres and within four years of his debut, he represented Great Britain, partnering Don Fox, in an unofficial 18–10 victory over France at Bradford in 1956. He added to his representative honours a season later when he was stand off for Yorkshire, in defeat to Cumberland at Whitehaven.