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Richard Sloley
Personal information
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(1946-10-17) (aged 55)[3]
Place of death Fitzrovia, London, 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.

Career

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Sloley 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]

After the Olympics, Sloley joined Ealing Association, becoming Club president.[5] In 1928, Sloley proposed a new amateur club, Argonauts, to be an English version of the Scottish Queen's Park.[6] The Argonauts had an arrangement to play at Wembley Stadium, which was otherwise only being used for internationals and the FA Cup final, but, after the Argonauts' application to join the Football League was refused, Sloley arranged for Ealing to move to Wembley, as an encouragement for amateur football as a whole.[7] The move was not a success[8] and the Argonauts were subsequently abandoned.

Personal life

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Sloley was a Cambridge Blue and as of 1911, was working as an assistant schoolmaster in Guildford.[9][10] He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps during the First World War.[11]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Brentford 1913–14[12] Southern League Second Division 2 3 — 2 3
1914–15[12] 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

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  1. ^ a b "Richard W Sloley". 11v11.com. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 267. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  3. ^ a b c Richard Sloley at Olympedia
  4. ^ "Forgotten Glories – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  5. ^ "The Traditions of Amateur Football". Middlesex County Times: 6. 31 March 1928.
  6. ^ "report". Guardian: 4. 17 May 1928.
  7. ^ "Ealing A.F.C. to play at Wembley". West Middlesex Gazette: 13. 15 September 1928.
  8. ^ Harris, Nick (5 October 2000). "Magnificent monument to vision of one man". Independent. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Argonauts". Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  10. ^ Richard Sloley on Lives of the First World War
  11. ^ "Richard Sloley | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  12. ^ a b White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 362–363. ISBN 0951526200.
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