Edward “Ned” Tate (born 1901 in South Shields, England) was an English football (soccer) fullback who began his career in Canada and finished it in the American Soccer League.Tate, a native of England, played with the English national team at the schoolboy level. At some point, he moved to Canada where he began his professional career in 1921 with New Waterford in Nova Scotia, Canada. He then moved to Canadian Explosives in 1922.