George Adams (soccer player, before 1889)

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George Adams
Personnel
place of birth Ayrshire ,  Scotland
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Norton Park
FC Kilmarnock
Cowlairs FC
0000-1896 FC Kilmarnock 0 (0)
1896-1897 Newcastle United 13 (1)
1897-1899 Hebburn Argyle
1899-1903 Southern League?
1903– Darlington St Augustines
1 Only league games are given.

George Adams (* in Ayrshire ) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Adams played in the season 1888/89 for Norton Park in the Scottish FA Cup and was also active for the Glasgow club FC Cowlairs and FC Kilmarnock , for which he was not used in the Scottish FA Cup or in Division Two , the club joined the 1895/96 season came. In February 1896 he moved to the north-east of England to the second division Newcastle United , whose team consisted largely of Scottish players. At that time the runners were made up of the trio James Stott , Jack Ostler and Tommy Gheewhich led the club to rise in 1898. For Adams therefore remained until his departure at the end of the season 1896/97 only the role of the supplementary player, in which he came to a total of 13 league appearances (1 goal).

As a result, Adams played for Hebburn Argyle in the Northern League , then is said to have played in the Southern League for four years from 1899 before moving to Darlington St Augustines again in the Northern League in 1903 , which is also his last documented station.

literature

  • Paul Joannou: The Black 'n' White Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Newcastle United FC Polar Print Group Ltd., Leicester 1996, ISBN 1-899538-03-8 , p. 9 .
  • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See John Litster: A record of pre-war Scottish League players v2 (CD Rom), PM Publications, Norwich 2012
  2. ↑ See usage statistics in David Ross: Killie: Official History - 125 Years of Kilmarnock FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1994, ISBN 978-1-874427-75-9 .
  3. ^ Paul Joannou: United - The First 100 Years ... and More: Official History of Newcastle United FC 1882-1995 . Polar Print Group Ltd., Leicester 1995, ISBN 978-1-899538-10-2 , p. 37 .
personal data
SURNAME Adams, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1902