Adam Little
{{short description|Scottish footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Adam Little
| image =
| fullname = Adam Little
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1919|09|01}}
| birth_place = Blantyre, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2008|06|12|1919|09|01}}
| death_place = Erskine, Scotland
| position = Midfielder
| years1 = 1936–1951
| years2 =
| years3 = 1951–1955
| clubs1 = Rangers
| clubs2 = → Blantyre Victoria (loan)
| clubs3 = Morton
| caps1 = 6
| caps2 =
| caps3 = 114
| goals1 = 0
| goals2 =
| goals3 = 1
}}
Adam Little (1 September 1919 – 12 June 2008) was a Scottish football player who played during the 1940s and 1950s for Rangers and Morton. Little was also a fully qualified doctor.
Career
Little was born in Blantyre and educated at Rutherglen Academy. It was while playing for the school team that he was scouted by then Rangers manager Bill Struth and the next day signed for the club aged 17. Struth decided to loan Little out to play for Blantyre Victoria to get much needed experience.
He returned to Rangers and played six first-team games after the Second World War. The war had interrupted his footballing career. Little served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Upon returning to Rangers he made six top team appearances before moving to Greenock with Morton for a spell then retiring from professional football.
Little also guested for Arsenal during the war.
References
- [https://archive.today/20130419204651/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/99/a2461899.shtml Article – WW2 Peoples War]
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-adam-little-rangers-footballer-turned-gp-876685.html Independent obituary]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828121803/http://www.followfollow.com/news/loadfeat.asp?cid=ED31&id=300264 Article – FollowFollow.com]
- [http://sport.scotsman.com/obituaries/Adam-Little.4205708.jp Scotsman obituary]
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Scottish Football League players
Category:People educated at Rutherglen Academy
Category:Arsenal F.C. wartime guest players
Category:Greenock Morton F.C. players
Category:Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Blantyre Victoria F.C. players
Category:Scotland men's wartime international footballers
Category:Footballers from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
Category:Scottish Junior Football Association players
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
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