Phil Bates (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Philip William Bates[1] | ||
Date of birth | 16 November 1897 | ||
Place of birth | Penge, England | ||
Date of death | 19 January 1974[2] | (aged 76)||
Place of death | Beckenham, England[2] | ||
Position(s) | Centre half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Beckenham Wanderers | |||
1919–1921 | Crystal Palace | 68 | (3) |
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Philip William Bates (16 November 1897 – 19 January 1974) was an English professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Crystal Palace.[1][3]
Personal life
Prior to the First World War, Bates worked in his family's greengrocer business.[2] After the outbreak of the war in 1914, he attested in the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and gave his age as 19 years and 9 months, three years older than he was in reality.[2] After a period training, Bates' battalion arrived on the Western Front in June 1915.[2] He was wounded in the right arm in March 1916 and evacuated to Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield.[2] The resultant paralysis leading to Bates' discharge from the army later in the year.[2] Despite the injury, he was able to return to work as a grocer and to football,[4] though he was only able to play until he was forced into retirement in 1921.[2] After the war, Bates married and established a grocer's in Beckenham. His business was damaged by a V-1 flying bomb during the Second World War.[4] He died of lung cancer at Beckenham Hospital in 1974.[2]
Honours
Crystal Palace
References
- ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 20. ISBN 190589161X.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiseman, Peter. "Philip William Bates – One-armed centre half of the 1920's Crystal Palace Football team" (PDF). pp. 4–6. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Phil Bates". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "Fag break saved market worker when V2 struck". Gravesend Reporter. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- 1897 births
- English footballers
- English Football League players
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment soldiers
- People from Penge
- Association football wing halves
- Crystal Palace F.C. players
- Scunthorpe United F.C. players
- Southern Football League players
- 1974 deaths
- Midland Football League players
- British grocers
- English football midfielder, 1890s birth stubs
- Deaths from lung cancer