Warwick Yates

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Warwick Yates
Personal information
Date of birth (1951-04-24) 24 April 1951 (age 73)
Original team(s) Lorne
Height/Weight 193 cm / 90 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1971-1973 Geelong 21 (0)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1980-1981 Geelong West (VFA)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1973 season.

Warwick Yates (born 24 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Career

Yates, a ruckman from Lorne, played senior football at Geelong for three seasons.[1] He played 21 league games, 11 of which came in the 1971 VFL season.[2]

In 1974 he began playing for Geelong West in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and would go on an play over 200 games for the club.[3]

He was a member of Geelong West's 1975 premiership team and captained the club in the 1977 season.[4][5]

Yates won his only club best and fairest in 1979.[5] Geelong West made the grand final that year, which Yates missed after getting injured before the preliminary final.[6] It was reported that he broke "a leg while chopping firewood".[6]

Appointed captain-coach in 1980, Yates led the club to the Division 1 preliminary finals and had a strong individual season with an equal sixth placing in the J. J. Liston Trophy.[7] He remained captain-coach for the 1981 VFA season, but resigned early in the campaign.[8]

After Geelong West merged with St Peters, Yates coached the club for its inaugural season in 1989.[3]

References

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