Richard Sloley
English footballer
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Richard W. Sloley (20 August 1891 – 17 October 1946) was an English amateur footballer.
| 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 (aged 55)[3] | ||
| Place of death | Fitzrovia, London, England[3] | ||
| Position | 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 | |||
Career
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
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
| 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 | ||
