Billy Beats

Billy Beats
Beats as a Bristol Rovers player in 1905.
Personal information
Full name William Edwin Beats[1]
Date of birth (1871-11-13)13 November 1871[1]
Place of birth Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England[1]
Date of death 13 April 1936(1936-04-13) (aged 64)[2]
Place of death Reading, Berkshire, England[1]
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[2]
Position(s) 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+)
International career
1901–1902 England 2 (0)
Football League 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Edwin Beats (13 November 1871 – 13 April 1936) was an England international footballer. A centre-forward, he scored 150 goals in 403 league games in a 16-year career 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 returned to Port Vale in August 1906 before joining Reading the following year.

Early and personal life

William Edwin Beats was born on 13 November 1871 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire.[2] He was the fourth of six children to Edwin and Amelia; his father was a slater.[2] He worked in the coal mines between the ages of thirteen and twenty.[2] He married Elizabeth Paulina Cousens in 1898 and had five children: Alice, John, Edwin (who also became a professional footballer), William and Lena.[2] After retiring from football, he worked as a licensed victualler.[2] He died on 13 April 1936 in Reading, Berkshire.[2]

Club career

Burslem Port Vale

Beats probably joined Burslem Port Vale from Port Hill Victoria in the autumn of 1891.[1] He made his debut in a Midland League match on 10 October 1891, in a 4–1 defeat at Burton Wanderers.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1]

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.[1] He also hit a hat-trick past Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Staffordshire Senior Cup.[1] He never missed a game all season long, and finished the campaign as the club's top-scorer with 20 goals in 32 games.[1] Beats scored seven goals in 31 appearances in the 1894–95 season, as Vale struggled, finishing above only Crewe Alexandra in the league.[1]

Wolverhampton Wanderers

In June 1895, he was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a £80 transfer fee, who went on to narrowly avoid the First Division test matches in 1895–96. He played at Crystal Palace in the 1896 FA Cup final, which ended in a 2–1 defeat to The Wednesday following a brace from Fred Spiksley. Beats finished with ten goals as the club's top-scorer in the 1896–97 season. He scored 12 goals in 1897–98 to finish as the club's top-scorer for a second time, as Wolves posted a third-place finish. He helped the club to finish eighth in 1898–99, fourth in 1899–1900, 13th in 1900–01, 14th in 1901–02, and 11th in 1902–03. In eight seasons at Molineux, he scored 67 goals in 199 top-flight matches.

Bristol Rovers

He moved on to Bristol Rovers in 1903. The "Pirates" finished third in the Southern League in 1903–04, before winning the championship by a five-point margin in 1904–05. They finished a disappointing eighth in 1905–06. Beats scored 44 goals in 94 games in his three years at Eastville.[3]

Later career

In August 1906, Beats returned to Port Vale and set a club record that would stand until October 2019 for the longest time between appearances for the club, as there was a gap of 11 years and 4 months between the last game of his first spell in May 1895 and the first game of his second spell in September 1906.[4] He scored 15 goals in 38 games in the 1906–07 season to become top-scorer once more.[1] However, he was released at the end of the season as the club were liquidated amid a financial crisis.[1] He then joined Reading in the Southern League.[1] He became a trainer for the "Royals" in 1911, before becoming the licensee of the Truro pub in Reading during World War I.[5] He returned to Reading as a coach in 1924, before leaving his post at Elm Park to again tend to his pub.[5]

International career

Beats won two caps for England whilst a player at Wolves.[6] His first came on 18 March 1901, in a 6–0 thrashing of Wales as part of the 1901 British Home Championship.[7] His second cap came on 3 May 1902, in a 2–2 draw with Scotland.[7] He also played for England against Scotland in the "Ibrox disaster" match at Ibrox Stadium that was abandoned in April 1902 due to the collapse of a terrace, resulting in the deaths of 25 people.[5]

Career statistics

Club statistics

Source:[8][9]

Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Burslem Port Vale 1892–93 Second Division 21 4 1 0 22 4
1893–94 Second Division 28 16 1 1 29 17
1894–95 Second Division 28 5 1 1 29 6
Total 77 25 3 2 80 27
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1895–96 First Division 26 13 6 1 32 14
1896–97 First Division 27 8 2 2 29 10
1897–98 First Division 28 11 2 1 30 12
1898–99 First Division 26 9 3 1 29 10
1899–1900 First Division 22 9 1 0 23 9
1900–01 First Division 33 5 3 1 36 6
1901–02 First Division 19 8 1 1 20 8
1902–03 First Division 18 4 1 0 19 4
Total 199 67 19 6 218 73
Burslem Port Vale 1906–07 Second Division 33 13 4 2 37 15

International statistics

England national team[10][11]
Year Apps Goals
1901 1 0
1902 1 0
Total 2 0

Honours

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Bristol Rovers

England

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 21. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "England Players – Billy Beats". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  3. ^ Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club – The Definitive History 1883–2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.
  4. ^ Baggaley, Michael (5 October 2019). "Will Atkinson makes Port Vale history by playing in Morecambe game". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "1871 – the ultimate Reading FC website". btinternet.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Billy Beats". Englandstats.com. Retrieved 3 September 2012. Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ a b "England Player Profile". englandfc.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  8. ^ Billy Beats at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  9. ^ Billy Beats at Soccerbase Edit this at Wikidata
  10. ^ "Billy Beats". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Billy Beats". Englandstats.com. Edit this at Wikidata

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