Charles Coates (sportsman)

Charles Coates

Birth name	Charles Hutton Coates
Date of birth	(1857-05-04)4 May 1857
Place of birth	Lambeth, England
Date of death	14 February 1922(1922-02-14) (aged 64)
Place of death	Boscombe, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forwards Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Cambridge University () – Leeds () – Yorkshire Wanderers () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1880–1882 England 3 (0)

The Reverend Charles Hutton Coates (4 May 1857 – 15 February 1922) was a clergyman who also played international rugby union for England. An all round sportsman, he competed, in archery, at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London for Great Britain.

Sporting career

Coates made his England international début in rugby union against Scotland on 28 February 1880. He would go on to earn three caps, with his final match, also against Scotland, on 4 March 1882.

At the Olympics, Coates entered the men's double York round event in 1908, taking 18th place with 418 points.

References

• Buchanan, Ian British Olympians. Guinness Publishing (1991) ISBN 0-85112-952-8
• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman (2001). "Archery 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Archived from the original on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2006.

External links

• Charles Coates at ESPNscrum
• Charles Coates at Olympedia