13-08-74: Southampton (a) 1-1 (HT 1-1) Crowd (?)

Edric Thornton (Ted) Bates was born on 3rd May 1918 at Thetford, Norfolk. His father was Yorkshire and Glamorgan cricketer Billy Bates who had two seasons as a Full Back with Leeds City. He started his football career with Thetford Town but moved to Norwich City in 1936, where he faied to make their first team. He joined Southampton on his nineteenth birthday in 1937 and made his debut for them in his first season at the Dell, but like many other young players, his career was put on hold by the Second World War, although he did manage thirteen goals in thirty games in the 1939-40 season, and three in eleven games in the following season, before working and playing for Folland Aircraft for a short period. There was fourteen goals in thirty games in the 1942-43 season, eight in thirty-five in 1943-44, thirteen in thirty-six in 1944-45 and fourteen in forty games in 1945-46. With the return of peace he returned to the Dell as one of their stars and continued until 1953, scoring sixty-five goals in two hundred and three peace-time League games, enjoying his best years in tandem with Charlie Wayman. He played his final game for the Saints in a 1-2 at home to West Ham United on 20th December 1952. He retired at the end of the 1952-53 season and became a coach at the Dell in May 1953. He became Southampton Manager in September 1955 when the Saints were members of the Third Division (South) and he took them to the Second Division in 1959 and then gained promotion to the First Division in 1966. There the Saints consolidated their position and twice gained entry into European competitions, in 1969 and 1971. After eighteen years in charge Bates decided to step down in December 1973, but stayed on as Lawrie McMenemy assistant for several years, being there when Southampton won the Cup in 1976. He joined the Saints' Board and served in that capacity for over twenty years before being appointed President of the club. He gained the MBE in 1998 and the freedom of the city in the same year. He died on 28th November 2003.

Gordon McQueen replaced Norman Hunter and Frank Gray replaced Duncan McKenzie. The Referee was Derek Nippard of Bournemouth.

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Teamsheet:(Courtesy Mark Ledgard)

Match Report: Daily Express 14-08-1974 (Courtesy Steve Bell)

Leeds play it gently

Leeds United, the villains of the weekend, last night showed the more subtle, skilful and familiar side of their football character, writes STEVE CURRY.

Guests at Southampton for the benefit match for Saints' general manager Ted Bates, they endeavoured to put on a display of entertaining and intelligent football. And in a game in which there was a lot of amiable football and little aggression they settled for a 1-1 draw. From the thrusting breaks of Paul Reaney to the devastating shooting of Peter Lorimer, Leeds rippled with skill and showed the kind of football that made them League champions last season and which made last Saturday's Charity Shield debacle all the more perplexing. Southampton entered into the spirit of the occasion with the expected genius of Mike Channon not out of place against the side that will represent England in the European Cup next season. Duncan McKenzie, Leeds' £250,000 signing scored his first goal for Leeds to give them an eighteenth minute lead, the goal coming as a climax to a typical Billy Bremner-Peter Lorimer build-up. And Southampton's equaliser came a minute from half-time, with Brian O'Neill drilling in a fierce low shot.