fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place position birth_date article_title name
stanley chesney 1931 - january 1978 cleveland , ohio , united states babcock and wilcox new york americans bayonne , new jersey , united states goalkeeper january 10 , 1910 stanley chesney
 stan chesney
stanley chesney

stanley `` stan '' chesney -lrb- born january 19 , 1910 in bayonne , new jersey ; died january , 1978 in cleveland , ohio -rrb- was a u.s. soccer goalkeeper .
he played in both the first and second american soccer league and is a member of the national soccer hall of fame .
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 and 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 .
chesney remained with the americans for the rest of his career .
in 1933 , they fell to stix , baer and fuller f.c. in the final of the national challenge cup .
in 1937 , they won the cup over st. louis shamrocks .
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
