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.
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.
He made five appearances and scored one goal for England. [3]