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Colin Dixon
Colin J. 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, '70s and '80s, 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 , or , 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.
==Rugby career==
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 , providing many tries for his 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 , i.e number 4, in Halifax's 10-0 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1963 Yorkshire 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.
As Halifax's captain in the 1967 and 1968 seasons Dixon led the side by example and was rewarded with his first Great Britain cap in 1968. Transferred a few weeks later to Salford for a record £15,000 (based on average earnings, this would be approximately £366,000 in 2007), he played in the Challenge Cup Final of 1969 losing to Castleford. Had Salford won he would almost certainly have been awarded the Lance Todd Trophy. That same season he was the League's highest scoring forward with 20 tries.
Dixon played in the Great Britain 1972 World Cup winning side and toured Australasia in 1974, playing in all three Tests against Australia (1 win, 2 losses) and all three in New Zealand (2 wins, 1 loss). Perhaps the highlight of his successful club career was winning the League Championship with Salford in 1973–74 and again in 1975–76. As an international he won 15 caps for Wales and 14 for Great Britain. He played his last game for Salford in 1980, but played a final season in the Premiership winning Hull Kingston Rovers team during the 1980–81 season. He played 418 times for Salford with 738 appearances in all first class games. Only five players have played test matches for Great Britain as both a back and a forward, they are; Colin Dixon, Frank Gallagher, Laurie Gilfedder, Billy Jarman, and Harry Street.
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