1. Victor Albert Williams Keeble was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward for Colchester United, Newcastle United and West Ham United.
17 Facts About Vic Keeble
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Victor Albert Williams Keeble was born 25 June 1930 to Victor Keeble and Minnie Rose Warner.
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Vic Keeble played football with Arsenal as a schoolboy and locally for King George V Boys Club and Colchester Casuals.
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Vic Keeble was signed as an amateur for hometown club Colchester United by future West Ham United manager Ted Fenton in May 1947, a few weeks short of his 17th birthday.
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Vic Keeble scored 59 goals in 69 Southern League appearances for Colchester United, and went on to score a further 23 goals in 46 Football League appearances after the club were elected to the Third Division South for the first time.
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Vic Keeble was the last surviving member of the team that beat Manchester City in the 1955 FA Cup Final, and has a road named after him in North Seaton, Ashington.
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Vic Keeble left having scored 67 goals in his 120 League and FA Cup games for the club.
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Vic Keeble finished the season with 19 League goals in 29 games, which, along with Dick's 21, contributed to a first-place finish and promotion to the First Division.
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Vic Keeble scored on his League debut, against Doncaster Rovers on 19 October 1957, and scored the first of three hat-tricks for West Ham on 16 November, against Stoke City.
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Vic Keeble made 15 league appearances, scoring six goals, but was forced to retire, aged 29, due to a back injury.
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Vic Keeble made a total of 84 League and FA Cup appearances for West Ham and scored 51 goals.
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Vic Keeble was renowned for his ability to score goals from the air.
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Vic Keeble's headed goals prompted Jackie Milburn to once comment: "Vic scored so many goals with his nut that I swear he had studs in his forehead".
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Vic Keeble remained active, winning medals in local table tennis competitions in the late 1960s.
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Vic Keeble later returned to Colchester United as commercial manager.
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Vic Keeble went on to become the club's general manager and secretary.
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Vic Keeble died in January 2018, at the age of 87, by which time he was the last surviving member of Newcastle's FA Cup winning sides of the 1950s.