Harry Waites Explained

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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. [The National Archives (United Kingdom)|National Archives]
  2. Yorkshire Evening Post, 3 October 1938
  3. Web site: Engelse geïnterneerden en het voetbal in Groningen tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. www.wereldoorlog1418.nl.
  4. Web site: VoetbalStats.nl. https://web.archive.org/web/20080530224545/http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/co16.html. dead. 30 May 2008.