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Wally Owen

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Wally Owen
Personal information
Full name Wallace Owen[1]
Date of birth 1864[1]
Place of birth Stoke-upon-Trent, England[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Stoke St Peter's
1886–1888 Stoke 0 (0)
Long Eaton Rangers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wallace Owen (1864 – after 1888) was an English footballer who played for Stoke.[1]

Career

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Owen started his career with Stoke St Peter's before joining Stoke in 1886.[1] He became a useful forward and scored four goals in six FA Cup matches in two seasons for Stoke.[1] With Stoke joining the Football League in June 1888, Owen instead moved on to the Combination with Long Eaton Rangers.[1]

He may also have made one FA Cup and one Staffordshire Senior Cup appearance for Stoke's rivals Burslem Port Vale in October 1886. A forward named 'Owen' wore the number 8 shirt for the "Valeites" for two games and played as a forward, though his first name and history went unrecorded.[2]

Career statistics

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Club Season FA Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals
Stoke[1] 1886–87 2 1 2 1
1887–88 4 3 4 3
Career total 6 4 6 4

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
  2. ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 221. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.