Harry Waites, sometimes also called Jim Waites, was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 football coach active in the Netherlands in the 1920s.

Career

Waites, who was a rugby player in his youth, spent World War One in an open Prisoner-of-War camp in the Netherlands, alongside footballer Arnold Birch

Arnold Birch

Arnold Birch was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-World War I:Birch worked at Newton, Chambers & Company's Tankersley mine until it closed in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I. He voluntarily joined the 1st Royal Naval Brigade...

. After the war ended in 1918, Waites became a coach of Be Quick

Be Quick 1887

Be Quick 1887 is a football club from Groningen, the Netherlands. The club was established in 1887, and is currently playing in the Sunday Hoofdklasse C. Be Quick 1887 won the 1919-20 Dutch national football title.-History:...

, winning the league title in 1920. Waites managed the Dutch national side

Netherlands national football team

The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...

 in 1921, and later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924 and 1925, before returning to England.