George Bates (English footballer)

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George Bates
Personal information
Full name George Reginald Bates[1]
Date of birth (1923-11-21)21 November 1923[1]
Place of birth Sheffield, England
Date of death January 1995(1995-01-00) (aged 71)
Place of death Sheffield, England
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Shardlows
1945–1946 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (0)
1946–1947 Darlington 3 (0)
1947 Lincoln City 0 (0)
1947 Goole Town
1947–1950 Gainsborough Trinity
1950–19?? Boston United 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Reginald Bates (21 November 1923 – January 1995) was an English footballer who played on the wing for Darlington in the Football League. He was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday and Lincoln City without representing either in the League, and played non-league football for Gainsborough Trinity.

Life and career[edit]

Bates was born in Sheffield in 1923,[1] the son of Reginald and Alice Bates. At the time of the 1939 Register, the family were living in Cammell Road, Sheffield; Bates was working as an assistant in a grocer's shop and his father was a locomotive driver.[2]

Bates played football for the works team of Sheffield-based crankshaft manufacturer Ambrose Shardlow before joining Sheffield Wednesday in March 1945.[1] He made nine appearances and scored once in the wartime leagues during what remained of the 1944–45 season, but played no first-team football in 1945–46.[3][4] He then signed for Darlington, and appeared in three of the first four Third Division North matches of the 1946–47 Football League season.[5]

After trials with another Third Division North club, Lincoln City, during which he appeared in the Midland League for their reserve team – according to the Lincolnshire Echo, he "accomplished little, apart from a left foot drive that all but produced an early goal"[6] and with Yorkshire League club Goole Town,[7] Bates signed for Gainsborough Trinity,[8] with whom he spent the next three seasons. He played regularly for their Midland League side for the first two years,[9] but towards the end of the third he was more often with the reserve team in the Yorkshire League.[10] In 1950, he signed for Boston United,[11] but never played first-team football for them.[12]

Bates died in Sheffield in 1995 at the age of 71.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "George Bates". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Ref: RG101/3537A/007/40 Letter Code: KIME". Retrieved 4 April 2016 – via Findmypast.
  3. ^ Rollin, Jack (2005). Soccer at War 1939–45. London: Headline. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-7553-1431-7.
  4. ^ Rover (24 March 1945). "Rovers on the target". Lancashire Daily Post. p. 4.
  5. ^ Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.
  6. ^ "Robledo's four for Barnsley Reserves". Lincolnshire Echo. 24 April 1947. p. 4.
  7. ^ "Goole F.C. selected". Daily Mail. Hull. 3 June 1947. p. 6.
  8. ^ "Trinity's signings". Lincolnshire Echo. 20 August 1947. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Grantham stage second-half rally". Grantham Journal. 12 December 1947. p. 2.
    Berry, Wilfred (27 March 1948). "With Boston United". Lincolnshire Standard. p. 5.
    "City R. were disjointed". Lincolnshire Echo. 25 October 1948. p. 4.
    "Trinity teams". Lincolnshire Echo. 11 February 1949. p. 6.
    "Trinity beat Boston". Lincolnshire Standard. 24 September 1949. p. 4.
  10. ^ "Trinity teams". Lincolnshire Echo. 31 March 1950. p. 8.
  11. ^ "New players for Boston". Nottingham Evening Post. 3 August 1950. p. 4.
  12. ^ "Boston United's Season 1950/1". Boston United FC. Ken Fox. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
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