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Stanley Chesney

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Stan Chesney
Personal information
Full name Stanley Chesney
Date of birth January 10, 1910
Place of birth Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Date of death January 1978
Place of death Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Bayonne Rovers
Babcock & Wilcox
1931– New York Americans
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stanley Chesney (January 19, 1910 – January 1978) was an all around athlete best known as a U.S. soccer goalkeeper. He played in both the first and second American Soccer League and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1966.[1]

Chesney attended Bayonne High School, where he also played varsity baseball and basketball.[2] Chesney was signed out of high school by Branch Rickey to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals minor league organization.[3][4] He also led his semi-pro NJ basketball team in scoring and was a local handball champion.

According to the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Chesney signed with the Bayonne Rovers when he was seventeen. At some point, he also played for Babcock & Wilcox. However, there are no records of these teams competing in the mid to late 1920s. At some point, he signed with the New York Americans of the first American Soccer League. He saw time in three games with the Americans during the fall 1931 ASL season.[5] Chesney had a remarkable 17-year career with the Americans. In 1933, they fell to Stix, Baer and Fuller F.C. in the final of the National Challenge Cup.[6] In 1937, they won the cup over St. Louis Shamrocks.[7] The Americans also won the 1936 ASL championship. At some point in the mid-1940s, Chesney may have retired as he came out of retirement in 1948 to rejoin the New York Americans.[8]

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References

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  1. ^ "Stanley Chesney - 1966 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame". Stanley Chesney - 1966 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  2. ^ "Rosie's Round-Up: Soccer Award to Chesney Was Long Overdue, Says Carroll, Ex- U.S. Olympic Ace", The Bayonne Times, June 29, 1966. Accessed April 3, 2025, via Newspaper.com. "Carroll was Chesney's teammate when Bayonne High School vied for the state basketball championship. against Passaic High School in the Twenties. He also played on the same high school baseball team with Chesney and later played with him and against him in bigtime soccer competition."
  3. ^ "Stan Chesney Off Tomorrow For St. Louis", Bayonne Evening News, June 29, 1929. Accessed April 3, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "At least half of Bayonne will be rooting for Stanley Chesney, the 'Big Boy,' when he leaves this city tomorrow morning for his long jaunt to join the St. Louis Cardinals.... The tall high school lad will arrive at St. Louis Monday, about noon. He will do directly to the Cardinal office and report to Branch Rickey, vice-president of the club, who will personally direct the coaching of Bayonne/High's rugged star."
  4. ^ McCabe, Tom. "The (G)loved Ones", The New York Times, March 21, 2013. Accessed April 3 2025. "A review of the A.S.L.’s top goalkeepers during the 1930s found that almost all of them were native born and played multiple sports. For example, Stan Chesney of Bayonne, N.J., starred for the New York Americans, but before that he had played in the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm system. He also led his semipro basketball team in scoring."
  5. ^ Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).
  6. ^ May 1, 1933 Time Magazine account of 1933 Challenge Cup
  7. ^ U.S. Open Cup at RSSSF
  8. ^ U.S. Soccer History – 1949
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