Percy Adamson

Percy Adamson
Personal information
Playing position Center forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Brooklyn Field Club
Teams managed
1914 Columbia Lions

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Percy Adamson was an early twentieth-century American soccer player who was captain of the Brooklyn Field Club when it won the 1914 National Challenge Cup.

Adamson played for Brooklyn Field Club as early as 1910.[1] On May 16, 1914, Adamson scored the first goal in the final of the 1914 National Challenge Cup which was the first time this tournament was held.[2] In September 1916, while living in Sheepshead Bay, New York he was still listed with the Brooklyn Field Club .[3]

In September 1914, he became the head coach of the Columbia University soccer team.[4]


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