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Major Frank Buckley

Frank Buckley
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Personal information
Full name Franklin Charles Buckley
Date of birth (1882-11-09)9 November 1882
Place of birth Urmston, Lancashire, England
Date of death 21 December 1964(1964-12-21) (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.

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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