Billy Beats

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Billy Beats
Full name	William Edwin Beats
Date of birth	13 November 1871(1871-11-13)
Place of birth	Wolstanton, England
Date of death	6 April 1936 (aged 64)
Place of death	Reading, Berkshire, England
Playing position	Centre forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1892–1895 1895–1903 1903–1906 1906–1907 1907–????	Port Hill Port Vale Rovers Burslem Port Vale Wolverhampton Wanderers Bristol Rovers Burslem Port Vale Reading	077 (26) 199 (67) 094 (44) 033 (13)
National team
1901–1902	England	002 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

William Edwin "Billy" Beats (13 November 1871 – 6 April 1936) was an English international footballer from Wolstanton in Staffordshire.

Beats won two caps for England in 1901 and 1902 while a player at Wolverhampton Wanderers, for whom he played in the 1896 FA Cup Final. After moving to Bristol Rovers in 1903, Beats won the 1904-05 Southern League championship.

Beats also played for England against Scotland in the "Ibrox disaster" match at Ibrox Stadium that was abandoned in May 1902 due to the collapse of a terrace, resulting in the deaths of 25 people.

[edit] Honours

Wolverhampton Wanderers

FA Cup finalist: 1896

Bristol Rovers

Southern League championship: 1904-05

[edit] References

William Beats. englandfc.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Definitive History 1883-2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.