Hugh Adcock
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hugh Adcock | ||
Date of birth | 10 April 1903 | ||
Place of birth | Coalville, England | ||
Date of death | 16 October 1975 | (aged 72)||
Height | 5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (1.66 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Outside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Ravenstone United | ? | (?) | |
Coalville Town | ? | (?) | |
Loughborough Corinthians | ? | (?) | |
1923–1935 | Leicester City | 434 | (51) |
1935 | Bristol Rovers | 13 | (1) |
Folkestone | ? | (?) | |
Ibstock Penistone Rovers | ? | (?) | |
International career | |||
Football League | ? | (?) | |
1929 | England | 5 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Hugh "Hughie" Adcock (born 10 April 1903 in Coalville, England – 16 October 1975) was an English footballer.
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]Adcock played for Ravenstone United, Coalville Town, Loughborough Corinthians, Bristol Rovers, Folkestone and Ibstock Penistone Rovers and most famously Leicester City.[2]
He made his debut for Leicester on the same day as club record goalscorer Arthur Chandler and was a key player in the emergence of the Midlands' club under Peter Hodge in the mid-1920s and later the side which finished in the club's highest ever league finish of runners-up in the First Division in 1928-29. He made 440 appearances for the club over 13 years making him the club's joint 3rd record appearance holder.
International
[edit]He made five appearances and scored one goal for England.[3]
Honours
[edit]As a player
[edit]- Football League First Division Runner-up: 1928-29
- Football League Second Division Champion: 1924-25
- British Home Championship Winner: 1930
Notes
[edit]- ^ "The lure of promotion. Leicester City". Athletic News. Manchester. 13 August 1923. p. 6.
- ^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 - 1939. Tony Brown. p. 6. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
- ^ "Hughie Adcock". Englandstats.com. Retrieved 2 November 2007.
- 1903 births
- People from Coalville
- Footballers from Leicestershire
- 1975 deaths
- English men's footballers
- England men's international footballers
- Coalville Town F.C. players
- Leicester City F.C. players
- Bristol Rovers F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Men's association football wingers
- English Football League representative players
- Folkestone F.C. players
- Ibstock United F.C. players
- Loughborough Corinthians F.C. players
- 20th-century English sportsmen