Billy Beats
Beats as a Bristol Rovers player in 1905.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | William Edwin Beats | ||
| Date of birth | 13 November 1871 | ||
| Place of birth | Wolstanton, England | ||
| Date of death | 6 April 1936 (aged 64) | ||
| Place of death | Reading, Berkshire, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre-forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Port Hill Victoria | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1891–1895 | Burslem Port Vale | 77 | (25) |
| 1895–1903 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 199 | (67) |
| 1903–1906 | Bristol Rovers | 94 | (44) |
| 1906–1907 | Burslem Port Vale | 33 | (13) |
| 1907–1911 | Reading | ||
| Total | 403+ | (149+) | |
| National team | |||
| 1901–1902 | England | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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William Edwin Beats (13 November 1871 – 6 April 1936) was an England international footballer. A centre-forward, he scored 150 goals in 403 league games in 16 years from 1891 to 1907.
He began his career with Burslem Port Vale in 1891, and played in the inaugural season of the Second Division. He was sold on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £80 in June 1895, and went on to pick up an FA Cup runners-up medal after playing in the 1896 FA Cup Final. Whilst with the club he won two England caps. He moved on to Bristol Rovers in 1903, and helped the club to the Southern League title in 1904–05. He made a return to Port Vale in August 1906, before he joined Reading the following year.
Beats probably joined Burslem Port Vale from Port Hill Victoria in the autumn of 1891. He made his debut in a Midland League match on 10 October 1891, in a 4–1 defeat at Burton Wanderers. A regular in the team from March 1892, he scored four goals in 23 appearances in the 1892–93 season, as the club took part in the first ever season of Second Division football. He scored one goal in a defeat to Lincoln City at the Athletic Ground, and hit three goals over the two games against Northwich Victoria.
He started the 1893–94 season with a brace against Manchester City, and then hit a hat-trick past Small Heath in a 5–0 home win on 25 September. He also hit a hat-trick past Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Staffordshire Senior Cup. He never missed a game all season long, and finished the campaign as the club's top-scorer with 20 goals in 32 games. Beats scored seven goals in 31 appearances in the 1894–95 season, as Vale struggled, finishing above only Crewe Alexandra in the league.
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