Adam Ferris
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{{Short description|Scottish footballer}}
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| position = Defender
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Adam Ferris was a Scottish football player who played as a defender for Standard AC and Rouen at the turn of the 20th century.
Career
File:Coupe Dewar 1902 - Standard AC.png
Together with William Attrill, Alfred Short, and Edward Theobald, Ferris was a member of the Standard team that won the 1901 USFSA Football Championship, starting as a full-back in the final against Le Havre on 14 April, in which he "frequently saved the situation" and "ruthlessly stopped all the opposing charges" in a 1–1 draw,{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4624462h/f3.item.r=ferris.zoom |title=Le Havre contre Paris |trans-title=Le Havre against Paris |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=3 |date=15 April 1901 |access-date=30 January 2025 }} thus forcing a replay two weeks later at Stade Langstaff, which he was unable to play because the USFSA Commission ruled him ineligible after Le Havre filed a request for his disqualification on the basis that Ferris lived in Seine-Inférieure and could not prove he resided in Paris. Either way, Standard claimed the title with a 6–1 victory.{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46244754/f3.item.r=ferris.zoom |title=Le cas de Ferris et d'Allemane |trans-title=The case of Ferris and Allemane |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=3 |date=28 April 1901 |access-date=11 May 2025 }}
The following year, on 16 March 1902, Ferris started in the final of the 1902 Coupe Dewar, helping his side keep a clean-sheet in a 1–0 win over United SC; the following day, the journalists of the French newspaper L'Auto (forerunner to L'Équipe) stated that he was the team's best player, along with Jordan and goalscorer Wooley.{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46254014/f7.item.r=ferris%20forris.zoom |title=Football association - La Coupe Sheriff-Dewar |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=7 |date=17 March 1902 |access-date=11 May 2025 }} In 1902, Ferris left Standard AC to join Rouen,{{Harvsp|Pessiot|2004|pp=281}} bringing both his skills and valuable experience, which he put at the service of the club for several years, being later imitated by the Englishmen Billy Barnes and Charlie Witty.{{cn|date=May 2025}} Despite being licensed to Rouen, Ferris started in the final of the 1904 Coupe Dewar on 17 April, strangely as a forward, helping his side to a 2–1 victory.{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4625012j/f7.item.r=ferris.zoom |title=La Finale de la Coupe Dewar - Victoire du Standard AC |trans-title=Dewar Cup Final - Victory for Standard AC |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=7 |date=18 April 1904 |access-date=11 May 2025 }}
On 27 April 1913, Ferris, now in his late 30s, started in the final of the USFSA national final, which ended in a 1–0 loss to SH de Marseille, a club of English and Swiss immigrants.{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4627518c/f1.image.r=ferris.zoom |title=Le Stade Helvétique de Marseille est champion de France |trans-title=The Stade Helvétique de Marseille is champion of France |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=1 |date=28 April 1913 |access-date=11 May 2025 }} The following day, the journalists of L'Auto stated that "the old full-back always positions himself well, but his clearances did not have their customary power", while those of La Vie au grand air stated that "despite the advice of the veteran Ferris, the youngesters of Rouen exerted themselves excessively due to overestimating their strength".{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9606079h/f6.r=ferris.zoom |title=Le Championnat - Des étrangers battent des" étrangers |trans-title=The Championship - Foreigners beat foreigners |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=La Vie au grand air |page=6 |date=3 May 1913 |access-date=4 June 2025 }}
Honours
;Standard AC
- USFSA Football Championship:
- Champion (1): 1901
- Coupe Dewar:
- Champion (2): 1902 and 1904
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last=Pessiot |first=Guy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edqgGWqg2oIC |title=Histoire de Rouen : 1900-1939 en 800 photographies |trans-title=History of Rouen: 1900-1939 in 800 photographs |date=2004 |publisher=Des Falaises |isbn=978-2-906-25886-0 |location=Paris |pages=320 |language=fr}}
References
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Scottish expatriate sportspeople in France
Category:Expatriate men's footballers in France
Category:Scottish expatriate men's footballers