{{short description|English footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Walter Boyes | image = Phillips card boyes.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Boyes displayed on a football card<br> by Godfrey Phillips | fullname = Walter Edward Boyes | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|1|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Upperthorpe, England<ref name="Kaufman" /> | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|9|16|1913|1|5|df=y}} | death_place = Sheffield, England<ref name="Kaufman">{{Cite web |last=Kaufman |first=Neilson |title=VE Day WW2 players as at May 2020 |url=https://www.leytonorient.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/VE-DAY-WW2-players-as-at-May-2020.pdf |access-date=18 July 2020 |pages=13–14}}</ref> | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}<ref name="Kaufman" /> | position = Outside left | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Woodhouse Mills United | years1 = 1931–1938 | clubs1 = West Bromwich Albion | caps1 = 151 | goals1 = 35 | years2 = 1938–1949 | clubs2 = Everton | caps2 = 66 | goals2 = 11 | years3 = 1949–1950 | clubs3 = Notts County | caps3 = 3 | goals3 = 1 | years4 = 1950–1951 | clubs4 = Scunthorpe United | caps4 = 13 | goals4 = 2 | nationalyears1 = 1935–1938 | nationalteam1 = England | nationalcaps1 = 3 | nationalgoals1 = 0 }} '''Walter Edward Boyes''' (5 January 1913 – 16 September 1960<ref>{{cite book | title=England: Player by player | publisher=Green Umbrella Publishing|last= Betts|first= Graham | year=2006|isbn=1-905009-63-1|page=43}}</ref>) was an English footballer who earned three caps for the national team between 1935 and 1938. He played club football for West Bromwich Albion, Everton, Notts County and Scunthorpe United.
==Biography== Boyes was born in Upperthorpe, Sheffield.<ref name="Kaufman" /> After playing for Sheffield Boys and Woodhouse Mills United, he turned professional with West Bromwich Albion in February 1931.<ref name="WBA Whos Who">{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=The Who's Who of West Bromwich Albion|publisher=Breedon Books|year=2005|isbn=1-85983-474-4|pages=34–35}}</ref> He scored in the 4–2 1935 FA Cup Final defeat to Sheffield Wednesday, the club he supported as a boy.<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/> In February 1938 Boyes joined Everton for a £6000 fee <ref name="WBA Whos Who"/> and instantly formed a great left wing partnership with Alex Stevenson, which helped the side clinch the 1938/39 league title.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://toffeeweb.com/history/concise/1915-1939.asp|title = ToffeeWeb: Everton History - Part III}}</ref>
During the Second World War, he appeared as a guest player for Aldershot, Brentford, Clapton Orient, Leeds United, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Newcastle United, Preston North End and Sunderland.<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/>
In June 1949, Boyes took up the role of player-coach at Notts County.<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/> He was Scunthorpe United's player-trainer between 1950 and 1953.<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/> He later became player-manager at Retford Town (1954) and Hyde United (1958).<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/> Boyes joined Swansea Town as trainer in 1959, but retired due to illness in May of the following year.<ref name="WBA Whos Who"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.evertonfc.com/stats/?mode=player_details&player_id=81 Everton career summary] *{{Englandstats}} *[https://www.spartacus-educational.com/WESTBboyes.htm Player profile at Spartacus Educational]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyes, Walter}} Category:1913 births Category:1960 deaths Category:English men's footballers Category:England men's international footballers Category:West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Category:Everton F.C. players Category:Notts County F.C. players Category:Scunthorpe United F.C. players Category:Retford Town F.C. players Category:Hyde United F.C. players Category:English Football League players Category:English Football League representative players Category:Men's association football wingers Category:Brentford F.C. wartime guest players Category:Footballers from Sheffield Category:20th-century English sportsmen