Dear All,
Spoke to Thirkers yesterday and he asked me to share the following with
you all.
Another name from Leeds United gone to the great changing room in the sky.
Betty
RIP Dave McAdam (1923-2017)
Dave McAdam was a very unlucky young man whilst at Leeds United. He was
signed by Frank Major Buckley who was renowned as a very hard
task-master. Dave played twenty consecutive games for Leeds and showed
great promise during this period, playing in the half-back line
alongside, the Great John Charles and skipper Tommy Burden. In the last
of these twenty games Dave sustained a severe injury after a spell out
of the side on the injured list. he regained his positionand played just
four more games only to suffer the recurring knee injury. In the end the
manager told Dave if it didn’t clear up he would have to leave the club.
The injury didn’t clear and Dave was transferrred to Wrexham.
His record at Leeds states: Half-Back. Born Hereford, 3rd April 1923.
Debut v Tottenham Hotspur (a) Division Two, 13th September, 1948, Drew
2-2. He was 5’ 10” and weighed 10stone 4lbs (1949). McAdam was plucked
from none League football by Frank Major Buckley and enjoyed a brief
spell with Leeds United.
He attended Abingdon Council School, Berkshire and went into the Army in
1941, serving with the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, in India, Burma
and the North West Frontier. He played football at battalion level and
on demob in September 1946 worked at the Branston Ordnance Depot near
Burton upon Trent. He joined Stapenhill WMC and was spotted by Major
Buckley. Within months he was in the Leeds first team but due to injury
moved to Wrexham in May 1950. After a year there, he spent ten years at
Burton Albion before joining Matlock for four years, helping to run the
reserves before returning to Stapenhill.
League App 24 Goals 0
I have had the pleasure of knowing Dave for a few years now and the
photographs on my web page
(http://www.thirkersleeds.co.uk/page9/page9.html and at
http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/players_profiles/M/McAdamDF.php) were
given to me by him. We have visited each other's homes and I must say
Dave was a really lovely bloke, his wife Lal and daughter Susan are just
as nice and are a super family. There are photographs below of one of
those meetings. At this particular get-together at Dave’s home, my wife
Jean and I took another great friend with us, Harold Williams who played
over 200 games for Leeds United and features in the photographs just
mentioned. More pictures at http://photobucket.com/davemcadam
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