Stanley James E. Allan (28 December 1886 – 4 May 1919) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest as a forward. Personal life Allan attended College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham between 1906 and 1908 and during that time, he worked as a physical education teacher at a school in Wallsend. He later taught physical education at the Higher Grade School in Stockton-on-Tees. Allan married in 1915 and had two children. He served as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and served on the Western Front from May 1918 through the April 1919, after the war. While home on demobilisation leave in May 1919, Allan died of a combination of Spanish flu and pneumonia and he was buried in Church Bank Cemetery, Wallsend. Career statistics Honours Newcastle United FA Charity Shield: 1909 References English footballers Newcastle United F.C. players Sunderland A.F.C. players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Nottingham Forest F.C. players English Football League players 1886 births 1919 deaths Worcester City F.C. players Association football forwards Association football inside forwards British Army personnel of World War I Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers Sportspeople from Wallsend Footballers from Tyne and Wear British military personnel killed in World War I Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in England Military personnel from Newcastle upon Tyne British schoolteachers Alumni of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham