Ted Adams (soccer player)

Ted Adams
Personnel
Surname	Edward Fairclough Adams
birthday	November 30, 1906
place of birth	Anfield , Liverpool ,  England
date of death	November 30, 1991
Place of death	Burnley ,  England
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Oakmere
	Earle
1927-1928	Liverpool FC	0 (0)
1928-1929	Burscough Rangers
1929-1931	Manchester Central
1931	Connah's Quay & Shotton
1931	AFC Barrow	0 (0)
1931-1935	Wrexham AFC	87 (0)
1935	Southport FC	13 (0)
1936-1940	Burnley FC	111 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Edward Fairclough "Ted" Adams (born November 30, 1906 in Anfield , Liverpool , † November 30, 1991 in Burnley ) was an English football goalkeeper .

Career

Adams played in Liverpool as a goalkeeper for the amateur clubs Oakmere and Earle , and drew the attention of Liverpool FC officials with his performance in the final of the Lancashire Amateur Cup in 1927 . Adams, who was making his living as a shipbuilder during this time , was registered as an amateur with Liverpool FC for a little over a year before he switched back to non-league football for the 1928/29 season and joined the Burscough Rangers who were in the Lancashire Combination played. From 1929 to 1931, the goalkeeper was under contract with the ambitious club Manchester Central , which repeatedly competed unsuccessfully for admission to the Football League . After a brief stint in Wales at Connah's Quay & Shotton , Adams returned to the Football League with his move to AFC Barrow in December 1931 , but was signed by the North Wales Football League team AFC Wrexham two weeks later after goalkeeper Wilf was there Burrows had broken his arm.

Adams immediately joined the team and made his Third Division North debut on December 19 in a 3-1 home loss to Lincoln City at the age of 25 . He was in competition with Dick Finnigan and Bob Foster in the following years . In the 1932/33 season Adams played 25 league games when the club finished the season in second place (the best result in the club's history until World War II) and was also in the final of the Welsh Cup (0-2 in the replay against Swansea Town) ). After a total of 99 competitive games, he moved to league rivals FC Southport in July 1935 . After only 13 appearances, Adams, who was credited at Southport with "brilliantly coping with difficult shots, but being unreliable in simpler tasks, especially corners", surprisingly ended his career in late 1935 - the starting point is supposed to have been disagreements with coach Jimmy Commins - and his contract with Southport was terminated on January 1, 1936.

Just two months later, Alf Boland , coach of the second division FC Burnley , convinced him to make a comeback. Adams played 111 league games for Burnley in the following years before his professional career came to an end with the cessation of league operations by the outbreak of World War II. In the war-related replacement competitions Adams was still active until 1943 for Burnley, New Brighton , Chester and Wrexham. After his football career, he settled in the Burnley area and worked for the Prestige Group , a cookware manufacturer.

Adams died at his 85th birthday at a pneumonia .

literature

• Gareth M. Davies & Peter Jones: The Racecourse Robins from Adams to Youds . Gareth M. Davies and Peter Jones, Ynys Mon 1999, ISBN 0-9524950-1-5 , pp. 14 .