Stan Prince won five England amateur caps and played centre-half in both Great Britain’s games at Melbourne in 1956. An Essex county player he started his senior career at Barking before a move to Romford in 1955 and later that same year to Walthamstow Avenue, where he spent the majority of his career. He was in the Walthamstow team that lost to Barnet in the semi-final of the Amateur Cup in 1958 but three years later he captained the side to victory over West Auckland Town at Wembley in what was the club’s Diamond Jubilee year.