Hugh Adcock

Hugh Adcock
Personal information
Full nameHugh Adcock
Date of birth10 April 1903
Place of birthCoalville, England
Date of death16 October 1975 (aged 72)
Playing positionOutside right
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Ravenstone United?(?)
Coalville Town?(?)
Loughborough Corinthians?(?)
1923–1935Leicester City434(51)
1935Bristol Rovers13(1)
Folkestone?(?)
Ibstock Penistone Rovers?(?)
National team
Football League?(?)
1929England5(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Hugh "Hughie" Adcock (born 10 April 1903 in Coalville, England – 16 October 1975) was an English footballer.

Career

Adcock's five England caps and one from an England trial match on display in his home town of Coalville in 2010

Club

Adcock played for Ravenstone United, Coalville Town, Loughborough Corinthians Bristol Rovers, Folkestone and Ibstock Penistone Rovers and most famously Leicester City.[1]

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

He made five appearances and scored one goal for England.[2]

Honours

As a Player

Leicester City
England

Notes

  1. Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 - 1939. Tony Brown. pp. p6. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
  2. "Hugh Adcock". englandstats. Retrieved 2007-11-02.