About Warwick Yates
Born 1951. Warwick Yates is an australian rules football player.
Warwick Yates (born 24 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Career Yates, a ruckman from Lorne, played senior football at Geelong for three seasons. He played 21 league games, 11 of which came in the 1971 VFL season.
In 1974 he began playing for Geelong West in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and would go on and play over 200 games for the club.
He was a member of Geelong West's 1975 premiership team and captained the club in the 1977 season.
Yates won his only club best and fairest in 1979. It was reported that he broke "a leg while chopping firewood". He remained captain-coach for the 1981 VFA season, but resigned early in the campaign.
After Geelong West merged with St Peters, Yates coached the club for its inaugural season in 1989.
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Warwick Yates was born on 24 April 1951.
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