Harry Waites

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

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

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