Harry Waites

Harry Waites
Waites in 1920.
Personal information
Date of birth 8 June 1878[1]
Place of birth Stockport[1]
Date of death October 1938[2]
Place of death Otley
Managerial career
Years Team
1919–1921 Be Quick
1921 Netherlands
1921–1924 LAC Frisia 1883
1924–1925 Feyenoord

Harry Waites, sometimes also called Jim Waites (8 June 1878 – October 1938), was an English football coach active in the Netherlands in the 1920s.

Career

Waites, who was a rugby player in his youth, spent World War I in an open Prisoner-of-War camp in the Netherlands, alongside footballer Arnold Birch.[3] After the war ended in 1918, Waites became a coach of Be Quick, winning the league title in 1920. Waites managed the Dutch national side in 1921,[4] and later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924 and 1925 (national league championship 1924), before returning to England.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b National Archives, Catalogue Reference:ADM/188/291, 176731.
  2. ^ Yorkshire Evening Post, 3 October 1938
  3. ^ a b "Engelse geïnterneerden en het voetbal in Groningen tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog". www.wereldoorlog1418.nl.
  4. ^ "VoetbalStats.nl". Archived from the original on 30 May 2008.


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