Dave Adamson (Australian footballer)

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bud Adamson

| caption =

| image =

| fullname = David Hastie Adamson

| birth_date = 14 June 1874

| birth_place = Carlton, Victoria{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5872310 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus |issue=8,740 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 June 1874 |page=1}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1914|10|10|1874|6|14|df=yes}}

| death_place = Beverley, Western Australia

| originalteam = Napier Imperials, Traralgon

| debutdate = Round 1, 1897

| debutteam = South Melbourne

| debutopponent = Melbourne

| debutstadium = Lake Oval

| position = Follower / Defender

| years1 = 1897–1903

| years2 = 1907–1909

| club1 = South Melbourne

| club2 = Albury

| games_goals1 = 90 (11)

| statsend = 1903

}}

David Hastie "Bud" Adamson (14 June 1874 – 10 October 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite news|last1=Rover|title=Football|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165171890|access-date=6 August 2016|work=Record|date=23 August 1902|location=Emerald Hill, Vic|page=3}}

Family

Adamson was the second son of David Adamson (of the Victorian Railways). His older brother John Henry Adamson (1873–1937) also played for South Melbourne in both the VFA and VFL.

On 23 December 1898 he married Frances (Fanny) O'Donnell at Carlton, Victoria, who died on 21 February 1899 at Kensington, Victoria.{{cite news|title=Marriages|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9512828|access-date=7 August 2016|work=The Argus|date=7 January 1899|location=Melbourne|page=1}}{{cite news|title=Deaths |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189678806|access-date=7 August 2016 |work=The Age|date=22 February 1899|location=Melbourne|page=1}}

Football

Originally from Napier Imperial, the South Melbourne junior side in the Victorian Junior Football Association and played in their 1893 premiership side.{{cite web |title=1893 - Football: Premiership Struggle |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241446951/26246522 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Herald |access-date=29 January 2021 |pages=1 |date=14 October 1893}} Adamson then spent 1894, 1895 and 1896, working in Traralgon with the Bank of Australasia and playing with Traralgon and was their club captain in 1895 and 1896.{{cite web |title=1896 - Football |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64158000 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Traralgon Record|location=Traralgon, Vic|access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=3 |date=1 May 1896}}

Adamson played one game for South Melbourne's VFA side in 1895 and acquitted himself quite well.{{cite web |title=1895 - No Title |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227340844 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Gippsland Farmers Journal |access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=2 |date=13 August 1895}}

Adamson was then transferred back to Melbourne with his work with the Bank of Australasia in late 1896{{cite web |title=1896 - Items of News |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64158619 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Traralgon Record|location=Traralgon, Vic|access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=2 |date=30 June 1896}} and was given a Valedictory by his Traralgon football and cricket teammates and colleagues prior to his departure.{{cite web |title=1896 - Validictory |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64158664# |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Traralgon Record|location=Traralgon, Vic|access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=3 |date=3 July 1896}}

Adamson was a follower and made his VFL debut with South Melbourne in the first round of their inaugural VFL season, 1897, alongside his older brother, Jack{{cite web |title=1897 - Football |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108482390/11101870 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Record |access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=3 |date=15 May 1897}} who played 3 games for South Melbourne in 1897 and 1898.{{cite book|last1=Pennings|first1=Mark|title=Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's Early History|date=2014|publisher=Grumpy Monks Publishing|location=New Farm, Queensland|isbn=978-0-646-91865-5|page=194|url=http://eprints.qut.edu.au/74662/1/46666_MARK'S_ORIGINS_OF_AUSTRALIAN_RULES_FOOTY_-_LOW_RES.pdf|access-date=8 August 2016|chapter=A Golden Era Begins: Football in ‘Marvellous Melbourne’, 1877 to 1885}}

Dave captained South Melbourne in 1899 and led the club all the way to the 1899 VFL Grand Final, where he played fullback in a narrow one point loss to Fitzroy.

Unsure what club Adamson played his football at between 1904 and 1906.

Adamson transferred to Albury, NSW with his work with the Bank of Australasia, the precursor to the ANZ Bank in 1907 and commenced playing with Albury. In 1908 he captained Albury to its first premiership in the Ovens & Murray Football League.{{cite news|last1=Rover|title=Football|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162601067|access-date=8 August 2016|work=Record|date=5 September 1908|location=Emerald Hill, Vic|page=3}}{{cite web |title=1908 - O&M Premiership won by Albury |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69551290 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Wodonga and Towong Sentinel|location=Vic|access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=4 |date=4 September 1908}}

In early 1914 Adamson transferred from Tallangatta, Victoria to Western Australia with the Bank of Australasia.{{cite web |title=1914 - Personal |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/7289459 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Argus |access-date=28 January 2021 |pages=15 |date=3 January 1914}} He was found dead in bed at the bank's Beverley branch on 10 October 1914, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his temple. He suffered from depression.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148573790 |title=Suicide At Beverley|newspaper=Eastern Districts Chronicle|location=York, WA|date=16 October 1914|access-date=2 October 2014|page=5}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120968578 |title=Obituary Notices.|newspaper=Upper Murray and Mitta Herald|location=Victoria|date=15 October 1914|access-date=2 October 2014|page=3}}{{cite news|title=Countryman's Column|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57804477|access-date=6 August 2016|work=Sunday Times|date=25 October 1914|location=Perth|page=28}}{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/144934948|title=Local and General|access-date=8 August 2016|work=The Yackandandah Times|date=22 October 1914|page=2}}

Notes

References

[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197540599 'Follower', "The Footballers' Alphabet", The Leader, (Saturday, 23 July 1898), p.17.]
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers (7th ed.), Melbourne: Bas Publishing.