Harry Waites
English football manager
About Harry Waites
Lived 1878 – 1938 (aged 59–60). Harry Waites was a British association football coach and association football player.
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. 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, and later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924 and 1925 (national league championship 1924), before returning to England.
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Who was Harry Waites?
English football manager (1878-1938)
When was Harry Waites born?
Harry Waites was born on 8 June 1878 in Stockport.
When did Harry Waites die?
Harry Waites died in 1938 in Otley.
What was Harry Waites's occupation?
Harry Waites was an association football coach and association football player.
What nationality was Harry Waites?
Harry Waites was British.
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