Richard Sloley
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Richard W. Sloley[1] | ||
Date of birth | 20 August 1891[2] | ||
Place of birth | Barnstaple, England[2] | ||
Date of death | 17 October 1946[3] | (aged 55)||
Place of death | Fitzrovia, England[3] | ||
Position(s) | Inside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Corinthian | |||
Cambridge University | |||
1914 | Brentford | 5 | (8) |
Corinthian | |||
1919–1922 | Corinthian | ||
1919 | → Aston Villa (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1920–1927 | Ealing Association | ||
International career | |||
1919–1920 | England Amateurs | 4 | (3) |
1920 | Great Britain | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Richard W. Sloley (20 August 1891 – 17 October 1946) was an English amateur footballer who played as an inside right in the Football League for Aston Villa.[2] He was capped by England at amateur level and represented Great Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[3][4] Sloley formed short-lived amateur club Argonauts in 1928.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Sloley was a Cambridge Blue and as of 1911, was working as an assistant schoolmaster in Guildford.[5][6] He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps during the First World War.[7]
Career statistics
[edit]Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Brentford | 1913–14[8] | Southern League Second Division | 2 | 3 | — | 2 | 3 | |
1914–15[8] | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | ||
Total | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | ||
Aston Villa (loan) | 1919–20[1] | First Division | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
Career total | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Richard W Sloley". 11v11.com. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 267. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ a b c Richard Sloley at Olympedia (archive)
- ^ "Forgotten Glories – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Argonauts". Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ Richard Sloley on Lives of the First World War
- ^ "Richard Sloley | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ^ a b White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 362–363. ISBN 0951526200.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- English men's footballers
- Brentford F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Men's association football inside forwards
- Southern Football League players
- Corinthian F.C. players
- Footballers from Barnstaple
- 1891 births
- Cambridge University A.F.C. players
- England men's amateur international footballers
- Aston Villa F.C. players
- Olympic footballers for Great Britain
- Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- 1946 deaths
- Royal Army Service Corps officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- 20th-century English sportsmen