Keith Barnes

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Australian national rugby league captain

William Keith Barnes (born 1934 in Port Talbot, Wales) dubbed 'Golden Boots' for his exceptional playing ability was an Australian rugby league player for the Balmain Tigers and also represented Australia on seventeen occasions including one World Cup. His position of choice was at fullback though he could also play half-back.

Barnes' family originally emigrated to Australia in 1948 to Wollongong where Barnes picked up the game and was eventually signed by the Balmain side as fullback and captain, two years later he made his debut for the Australian team at international level. He captained the Australian team for their 1959-1960 tour of Britain.

Barnes retired from competitive rugby league in 1968 making seventeen appearances for his adopted country and 234 appearances for the Tigers in which he averaged four goals per game. With his retirement he took up an active behind the scenes role and in 1976 became secretary manager of the Balmain leagues club and later took up the role of chief executive in 1984. Barnes also became the first Australian captain to manage his international side on the tour of Britain in 1990.

At the turn of the century Barnes was also honoured by being nominated and selected in the Balmain team of the century and the Wests Tigers team of the century. [1]

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Keith Barnes is also a Computer Aided Design teacher at Haverford High School in Haverford Township Pennsylvania. "Barnes", as his students call him, is fond of countries formerly of the soviet union and his own catch phrases. Some of his catch phrases are "yeah baby", "honestly" (pronounced ON-estly), "Now you're cookin' with gas", and "Goulet." Barnes also was a navy seal during vietnam where he had 97 confirmed kills. Keith also belonged to several bands such as Notchoma, Nat King Kong, and the logarhythms, a teacher super group which performed for one night in 2006.

He finds it odd when people get mad at him for keeping his dog, Samba, in his car for long periods of time.

Keith also has a severe case of adult Attention Deficit Disorder, and is known to lose track of what he says in conversations. Rumor has it that Keith's students had once planned a coup d'état against him, which involved wrapping him in surgical rubber, and suspending him from the projector in his room. The coup failed and was said to have been repressed by the woman he met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.