Keith McIntyre (cap #129) played twelve seasons for Waratahs. It was career mirrored by many others for a club that has always prided itself on family, the desire by players to stay within the ranks and starting in the lowest grade as kids and ending in the highest as young men.
Starting in B grade in the second half of the 1950's and graduating as far as A grade by the early 1960's, it was in A-Reserves that he had his major successes, where his 2,639 runs were the most scored in that grade. In all, he made nearly 4,000 runs for the Club.
Despite his regular run getting - 514 runs 1960-61, 624 in 1968-69 and 447 in 1969-70 - it wasn't until the very end of his career with Waratahs that he scored his first and only hundred. His 101 not out v Armidale Teachers College, was made even more memorable as he had carried his bat, one of only nine players to do so in more than sixty years of competition and the only one to score a century in the process. In the second innings, he retired on 52, one of only six players to make at least 50 in both innings of a match.
Like most handy cricketers, there was more to McIntyre than his batting. As a keeper, he made 53 dismissals and he had 6-20 as a part time trundler!
After he left Waratahs, he made a second legend at Centrals CC of Armidale, being one of the architects of their rise from easy beats of the late 1970's to 1st grade Premiers in 1985-86, beating ... you guessed it, the red hot favourites, Waratahs!