Jimmy Yates
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Yates | ||
| Date of birth | 2 November 1869 | ||
| Place of birth | Tunstall, Stafordshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 5 September 1922 (aged 52) | ||
| Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||
| Playing position | Outside-right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kelvinhaugh | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1891–1892 | Burnley | 0 | (0) |
| 1892–1893 | Ardwick | 20 | (9) |
| 1893–1897 | Sheffield United | 80 | (8) |
| 1897–1898 | Southampton | 13 | (6) |
| 1898–1899 | Gravesend United | 0 | (0) |
| 1899–1901 | Southampton | 49 | (10) |
| 1901–1903 | Hastings & St Leonards | ||
| 1905 | Southampton | 1 | (0) |
| 1905–1906 | Gravesend United | ||
| 1906 | Hastings & St Leonards | ||
| 1908–1909 | Salisbury City | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Jimmy Yates (2 November 1869 – 5 September 1922) was an English professional footballer who played as a right winger in the 1900 FA Cup Final for Southampton.
Yates was born in Tunstall, Stafordshire, but started his professional career in November 1892 with Second Division Ardwick, after spending the 1891–92 season on the books of Burnley. He made his Ardwick debut on 24 December 1892 in a 2–1 defeat at the hands of Lincoln City. Toward the end of the season he hit a rich vein of goalscoring form, scoring five goals in six matches. In the 1893–94 season he played in 13 consecutive matches, scoring a brace in his final Ardwick appearance, a 3–0 win against Walsall Town Swifts. In total he made 21 appearances for Ardwick, scoring nine goals. In December 1893, after just under a year in Manchester, he moved back to his native town to join Sheffield United in the First Division. He spent four seasons with United playing at the top level in English football, and played a major part in them reaching the runners-up position in the 1896–97 season.
In the summer of 1897, he was one of four Football League players who were signed by Southern League champions Southampton. Described by Holley & Chalk as "a dapper, clever forward (who)when at his best, was virtually unstoppable" his first season at The Dell was often interrupted by ill-health and he was out of the team from March onwards, thus missing out on "Saints" first FA Cup Semi-final against Nottingham Forest. In the 1897–98 season he made thirteen appearances at the start of the season, before losing his place to Bob Brown, scoring six goals as Southampton again claimed the Southern League championship.
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