Harry Adamson was a professional footballer who played at centre forward

Striker

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. He was born in Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe is a town within North Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority, and had an estimated total resident population of 72,514 in 2010. A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre,...

, England

England

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Adamson was playing for Upton Colliery when he signed for league club Bradford City

Bradford City A.F.C.

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 in October 1933. He played just 29 league games at Valley Parade

Valley Parade

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 in three years but scored 19 goals, including ten from only 12 games in 1934–35

1934-35 in English football

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 to be the club's leading goal-scorer. He left for Aldershot

Aldershot F.C.

Aldershot Football Club was an English Football League club, which was wound up in the High Court in March 1992. They became the first Football League club since Accrington Stanley to resign from the League during the course of a season. The club was nicknamed the Shots for both the last syllable...

in May 1937.