| Ogden's Cigarette card featuring Leslie Adams | ||||||
| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Leslie Adams | |||||
| Nickname | Les, Juicy | |||||
| Born | circa-1910 Hyde Park, Leeds, England |
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| Died | 31 January 1945 Burma |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Scrum-half/Halfback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1926–1932 | Leeds | 109 | ||||
| 1932–1934 | Huddersfield | |||||
| 1934–1942 | Castleford | 196 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 117 |
| 1942–1942 | Leeds (Guest) | |||||
| Total | 305 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 117 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1931–1937 | Yorkshire | ≥7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931–1939 | England | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932–1932 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Leslie "Les" 'Juicy' Adams was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s who at representative level played for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Leeds (twice), Huddersfield, and Castleford, playing at Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7.
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Juicy Adams won caps for England while at Leeds in 1931 against Wales, while at Castleford in 1936 against Wales, in 1939 against France, and won a cap for Great Britain while at Leeds on Saturday 18 June 1932 against Australia at Brisbane Cricket Ground (The Gabba).[1]
Juicy Adams played Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, in Leeds's 11–8 victory over Swinton in the 1932 Challenge Cup final at Central Park, Wigan on 7 May 1932, in Huddersfield's 21–17 victory over Warrington in the 1933 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 6 May 1933, and in Castleford's 11–8 victory over Huddersfield in the 1935 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 4 May 1935.[2] In doing so, he became the first player to win the Challenge Cup with three different clubs.
Juicy Adams became a landlord in Leeds, and subsequently volunteered for war duty with the Royal Air Force, becoming a rear gunner. He was killed in action in January 1945, when the Liberator B Mk V in which he was flying came down 40-miles south-west of Rangoon, Burma. Of the nine men on the plane, three of the occupants, including Juicy Adams, are believed to have bailed out, and then drowned. The remaining six men were captured, the 2 officers were separated from the Flight Sergeants and sent to Rangoon Jail, where they survived, and the Flight Sergeants were beheaded by the Japanese Military on 7 February 1945, and are buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery. After the war the Japanese military officers responsible for the execution were tried for war crimes, and were subsequently executed. Despite numerous searches of the area around the crash site, and discussions with villagers who found the plane, no trace of the body of Juicy Adams, or his colleagues, has been found.[3]
Juicy Adams is a Tigers Hall Of Fame Inductee.[4]