Walter Adcock

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Walter Adcock
Personnel
birthday October 10, 1879
place of birth LoughboroughEngland
date of death 4th quarter 1959
Place of death LoughboroughEngland
position External rotor (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Loughborough Victoria
1899-1900 Loughborough FC 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Adcock (born October 10, 1879 in Loughborough , † 4th quarter 1959 ) was an English football player .

Career

Adcock played at the local level for Loughborough Victoria before 1899 together with his younger brother Josiah in the Football League Second Division for FC Loughborough changed. Adcock made his debut on September 16, 1899 in a 4-0 away loss to Newton Heath . A point was not achieved in his three other missions, in which he was mostly called up as a right wing runner . This included a 12-0 defeat by Woolwich Arsenal , the Football League's record to date. The club ended the season as a knocked-down bottom of the table and had to retire from the Football League at the end of the season, a planned start of play in the Midland League no longer took place, further football stations of Adcock are not recorded. In 1901 he earned his living as an iron turner , in 1911 he was employed as a mechanic in a machine tool factory in Coventry . By 1930 at the latest he was back in Loughborough, where he appeared among other things as a bowl partner of his former teammate Frederick Stenson .

Individual evidence

  1. Paul Taylor: The Luffs Who's Who - The player of Loughborough Athletic and Football Club in 1889 to 1900 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2014, ISBN 978-1-905891-85-6 , pp. 6 .