Dave Adamson (Australian footballer)
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| Born | David Hastie Adamson Error: Invalid birth date for calculating age Australia |
| Died | October 10, 1914 (aged 40) |
| Occupation(s) | Australian rules footballer, banker |
| Years active | 1893–1908 (football) |
| Known for | Playing for South Melbourne in the VFL, captain of South Melbourne in 1899, captain of Albury Football Club to 1908 premiership |
David Hastie "Bud" Adamson (14 June 1874 – 10 October 1914) was an Australian rules football player known for his tenure with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
Adamson was the second-born son of David Adamson, who worked for Victorian Railways. His elder sibling, John Henry Adamson (1873–1937), also represented South Melbourne during both the VFA and VFL competitions.
He wed Frances (Fanny) O'Donnell on 23 December 1898 in Carlton, Victoria; tragically, she passed away shortly after, on 21 February 1899, in Kensington.
Football
Beginning his football journey with Napier Imperial, a junior team affiliated with South Melbourne in the Victorian Junior Football Association, Adamson was part of their victorious 1893 premiership squad. Between 1894 and 1896, he was employed by the Bank of Australasia in Traralgon and served as captain of the Traralgon Football Club during the 1895 and 1896 seasons.
In 1895, Adamson appeared once for South Melbourne’s VFA team. Upon his return to Melbourne for banking duties in late 1896, his teammates at Traralgon honored him with a farewell.
Playing primarily as a follower, Adamson made his debut in South Melbourne’s first VFL season in 1897 alongside his brother Jack, who participated in three matches for the club across the 1897 and 1898 seasons.
He assumed the captaincy of South Melbourne in 1899 and guided the team to the VFL Grand Final that year, where they were narrowly defeated by Fitzroy by a single point.
Records do not clearly specify his club involvement between 1904 and 1906.
In 1907, Adamson relocated to Albury, New South Wales due to his banking career with the Bank of Australasia and joined the Albury Football Club. He captained Albury to secure its inaugural Ovens & Murray Football League premiership in 1908.
Early in 1914, Adamson transferred from Tallangatta, Victoria to Western Australia with the Bank of Australasia. On 10 October 1914, he was discovered deceased at the bank’s Beverley branch from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; he had been struggling with depression.