Stanley Chesney

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] Beyond soccer Stan was signed out of Bayonne High School by the legendary Branch Rickey to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals organization and played first base in the Three "I" League. Stan 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.^[2] 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.^[3] In 1937, they won the cup over St. Louis Shamrocks.^[4] 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^[5]