Dick Allman

Allman signed for Football League Second Division club Burslem Port Vale in April 1903, having previously played for local minor-league sides Burslem Park Boys and Burslem Higherhave.[2] He scored his first goal at the Athletic Ground on 16 January 1904, in a 2–2 draw with Burnley, and finished the 1903–04 campaign with three goals in nine appearances.[2] He hit eight goals in 29 games in 1904–05 to finish as the club's top scorer.[2]

He transferred to Reading in May 1905. He scored ten goals in 25 Southern League games in 1905–06 and then seven goals in 36 games in 1906–07.[1] He then departed Elm Park, and started the 1907–08 season at Portsmouth, but moved on to Plymouth Argyle in December 1907 after finding his first team opportunities at Fratton Park limited.[1] He scored six goals in 19 league games to help the "Greens" to finish as runners-up in the Southern League.[1]

Allman returned to Staffordshire in May 1908 to sign with Stoke, but never featured at the Victoria Ground, and so instead moved on to Liverpool two months later.[1] He played one First Division game for the "Reds", before he left Anfield.[1] He spent the next few years with non-league sides Grantham, Wrexham, and Ton Pentre, and scored the winning goal for Wrexham over Chester in the 1910 Welsh Cup final.[1] He joined Leicester Fosse in November 1911.[1] He scored three goals in seven Second Division games in 1911–12, before leaving Filbert Street for Croydon Common in June 1912.[1] He scored 18 goals in 43 games in 1912–13, before hitting 13 goals in 42 games in 1913–14 to help the club to the Division Two title.[1] He then hit three goals in 28 appearances in 1914–15, and was the last player to score a goal for Croydon Common.[1] He guested for Arsenal during World War I and served as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery.[1][3] After the war he served Crystal Palace and Maidstone United as a reserve player.[1]