Frank Macey
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1894 | ||
| Date of death | 3 December 1973 (aged 79) | ||
| Place of death | Westminster, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward / inside left | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1923–1936 | Kingstonian | ||
| 1925–1926 | Plymouth Argyle | 1 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1923–1928 | England amateur | 4 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Frank Macey (1894 – 3 December 1973) was an English amateur footballer who played as a forward.
He spent 15 years in the Army, and was a prisoner of war for almost the entirety of the First World War. While still a serving soldier, in 1923, he joined Kingstonian F.C. He signed amateur forms with Football League club Plymouth Argyle, but played only one competitive match for them before returning to Kingstonian, for whom he played until retiring from the game in 1936. During that time, he captained the club to victory in the 1933 Amateur Cup, was capped four times for the England amateur XI, and scored twice in each match as the Amateurs beat the Professionals 6–1 in the 1925 FA Charity Shield and 6–3 in the 1926 match.
Macey was born in 1894, and joined the Royal Fusiliers when he was 15. He was captured early in the First World War, and spent most of the conflict as a prisoner of war. On his release, he acted as an interpreter for German prisoners of war in England, and after further tours of duty abroad, he returned to the Middlesex area. After leaving the Army, he worked for the electricity company in Kingston, Surrey, as a meter inspector.
Macey died in Westminster Hospital on 3 December 1973, at the age of 79. He was buried in Kingston Cemetery.
While a serving soldier, he played for the Army XI in inter-service competition, as well as in friendly matches against club sides and against other countries' military teams. In 1923, he was selected for an Army XI that took on Aston Villa; although his team lost heavily, the Manchester Guardian wrote that "Macey was the 'star' of the Army team. He has a real gift for the game, trapping the ball like a master, feeding his wings well, and generally revealing unmistakable 'class' in all he does." They did, however, question whether his lack of height might make him better suited to wing- rather than centre-forward play. A few months later, he scored twice and set up a third as the Army XI beat the French Army in Paris by three goals to one, as part of an international triangular tournament.
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