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
[edit]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
[edit]| 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 | |