Alan Kellett (1937–2006) was an English former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and

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ed in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for

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, and at club level for

Ovenden Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Calderdale Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351. The area was scattered with pockets of Vic ...

ARLFC (in

, Halifax),

Oldham Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative cent ...

(two spells), Halifax,

Bradford Northern The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. The club have won the League Championship six times, the Challenge Cup f ...

and

Keighley Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford. Keighley is north-west of Bradford, n ...

, as a or , and coached at club level for

Background

Alan Kellett's birth was registered in Halifax,

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, lieu ...

, England.

Playing career

Early career

Kellett started his

career as an amateur with Ovenden. In November 1954, he made two appearances for Halifax due to an injury to first choice Ken Dean.

Oldham

Kellett was signed by Oldham in February 1955. He made his debut in March 1955 against Belle Vue Rangers. Kellett played , and scored a try in

's 2–12 victory over St. Helens in the

1958–59 Lancashire Cup The 1958 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition 1958–59 was the forty-sixth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. Oldham won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 12-2 The match was played at Station Roa ...

Final during the 1958–59 season at

Station Road, Swinton Station Road was a stadium in Pendlebury, near Manchester, England. It was the home of Swinton Rugby League Club between 1929 and 1992 and was widely recognised as one of the finest grounds in the Rugby League. Swinton moved to Station Road w ...

on Saturday 25 October 1958, in front of a crowd of 38,780.Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 64 – 1958–59". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a

Halifax

Kellett played in Halifax's 15–7 victory over St. Helens in the 1964–65 Championship Final during the 1964–65 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 22 May 1965.Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 70 – 1964–65". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a In 1966, Kellett moved to

References

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