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Rod Adams
Personal information
Full name Rodney Leslie Adams[1]
Date of birth (1945-09-15) 15 September 1945 (age 78)[1]
Place of birth Bath,[1] England
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Foxhill Rangers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1966 Frome Town
1966–1969 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 17 (4)
1969–1975 Weymouth 223 (26)
1975–1977 Yeovil Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rodney Leslie Adams (born 15 September 1945) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic as a winger.

His early football was played for Foxhill Rangers based at Foxhill, Bath where he lived. He joined Bournemouth from non-league Frome Town for a transfer fee of £500.[citation needed]

He joined Weymouth, where he made 339 appearances in all competitions, including 28 as substitute.[2] While at Weymouth off the field he was an accounts clerk for Devenish Brewery. Now resident in Vancouver, Canada. His father Les was a non-league footballer in Bath.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b c "Rod Adams". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Player archive". Weymouth F.C. May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2019.


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