Major Frank Buckley
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Franklin Charles Buckley | ||
| Date of birth | 9 November 1882 | ||
| Place of birth | Urmston, Lancashire, England | ||
| Date of death | 21 December 1964 (aged 82) | ||
| Place of death | Walsall, West Midlands, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1902–1904 | Aston Villa | 0 | (0) |
| 1904–1905 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ? | (?) |
| 1905–1906 | Manchester United | 3 | (0) |
| 1907–1908 | Manchester City | 11 | (0) |
| 1909–1913 | Birmingham City | 55 | (4) |
| 1913–1914 | Derby County | 92 | (3) |
| 1913–1914 | Bradford City | 4 | (0) |
| 1919–1920 | Norwich City | 1 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1914 | England | 1 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1919–1920 | Norwich City | ||
| 1923–1927 | Blackpool | ||
| 1927–1944 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 1944–1946 | Notts County | ||
| 1946–1948 | Hull City | ||
| 1948–1953 | Leeds United | ||
| 1953–1955 | Walsall | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Franklin Charles Buckley (more commonly known as Major Frank Buckley) (3 October 1882 – 21 December 1964) was an English football player and, later, manager. He is the brother of Chris Buckley who played for Aston Villa.
Buckley was born in Urmston, Lancashire. He joined the army and bought himself out in 1902 to join a football club.
He went from Aston Villa to Brighton to Manchester United and Manchester City all within six years and found something approaching stability only with Birmingham City, where he made 56 appearances. Soon after that he was on the move again, this time to Derby County. It was with the Rams that he gained his sole England cap, in 1914 in a shock 3–0 defeat by Ireland at Ayresome Park, before upping sticks, again, to join Bradford City; his stay in Yorkshire shortened by the start of World War I.
Buckley went to war with the 17th Middlesex Regiment (where he commanded the Football Battalion) seeing action and receiving wounds to his lung and shoulder in the Battle of the Somme and rose to the rank of Major. On his return, he was appointed manager of Norwich City. The Canaries had been so debt-ridden that the receivers had wound the club up, but following an extraordinary general meeting, the club was resurrected and Buckley was placed in charge in February 1919 and returned the club to Southern League football. Despite retiring from playing during the war, Buckley played one game for Norwich in September 1919, when he was the club's secretary-manager.
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