Wally Owen

Wally Owen

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

Wallace "Wally" Owen (1864 – afer 1888) was an English footballer who played for Stoke.^[1]

Career

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 by the name of '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

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

1. 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.