George Bates (English footballer)

George Reginald Bates (21 November 1923 – January 1995) was an English footballer who played on the wing for Darlington in the Football League.

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 (1995-02) (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)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Life and career

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,[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
  1. "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 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  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 – via British Newspaper Archive. Bates, on trial, on the right wing, accomplished little, apart from a left foot drive that all but produced an early goal.
  7. "Goole F.C. selected". Daily Mail. Hull. 3 June 1947. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. "Trinity's signings". Lincolnshire Echo. 20 August 1947. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. "Grantham stage second-half rally". Grantham Journal. 12 December 1947. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
    Berry, Wilfred (27 March 1948). "With Boston United". Lincolnshire Standard. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
    "City R. were disjointed". Lincolnshire Echo. 25 October 1948. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
    "Trinity teams". Lincolnshire Echo. 11 February 1949. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive.
    "Trinity beat Boston". Lincolnshire Standard. 24 September 1949. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. "Trinity teams". Lincolnshire Echo. 31 March 1950. p. 8 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. "New players for Boston". Nottingham Evening Post. 3 August 1950. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. "Boston United's Season 1950/1". Boston United FC. Ken Fox. Retrieved 4 April 2016.


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