Harry Waites | |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1878[1] |
Birth Place: | Stockport |
Death Date: | October 1938[2] |
Death Place: | Otley |
Manageryears1: | 1919–1921 |
Managerclubs1: | Be Quick |
Manageryears2: | 1921 |
Managerclubs2: | Netherlands |
Manageryears3: | 1921–1924 |
Managerclubs3: | LAC Frisia 1883 |
Manageryears4: | 1924–1925 |
Managerclubs4: | 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.
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]