Colin Battye (1936 – April 2018) was an English professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played at club level for

Castleford Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centr ...

( Heritage № 427), as a .David Smart & Andrew Howard (1 July 2000) "Images of Sport - Castleford Rugby League - A Twentieth Century History". The History Press Ltd.

Background

Colin Battye's birth was registered in

Pontefract Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wake ...

district,

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in 1936, and he died aged 82 in April 2018.

Playing career

County League appearances

Colin Battye played in

's victory in the

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county league during the 1964–65 season.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final appearances

Colin Battye played , i.e. number 2, in

's 4-0 victory over St. Helens in the

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BBC2 Floodlit Trophy The BBC 2 Floodlit Trophy (also known as the BBC 2 Television Trophy) was a competition for Great Britain, British rugby league clubs held between 1965 and 1980. It was designed specifically for television, and the then director of BBC Two, BBC2 ...

Final during the 1965–66 season at

Knowsley Road Knowsley Road in Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, was the home ground of St. Helens from 1890 until its closure in 2010. St Helens Town FC played their home fixtures at Knowsley Road from 2002 until 2010. For a period, the venue also hosted ...

, St. Helens on Tuesday 14 December 1965.

Genealogical information

Colin Battye was the younger brother of Derek Battye, and Barbara Battye, and the older brother of the rugby league footballer;

Malcolm Battye Malcolm Battye (birth registered third ¼ 1941) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played at club level for Castleford ( Heritage № 462) and Doncaster (Heritage № 246), as a , i.e. number 3 ...

References

External links

Search for "Battye" at rugbyleagueproject.orgColin Battye Memory Box Search at archive.castigersheritage.com
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