1. Chester Frank Adams was a professional American football tackle and placekicker who played ten seasons in the National Football League and All-America Football Conference, mainly with the Cleveland Rams and Cleveland Browns.
27 Facts About Chet Adams
1. 2.
Chet Adams was selected to the NFL's All-Star game twice.
3.
Chet Adams grew up in Cleveland and went to college at Ohio University.
4.
Chet Adams was put out on loan to the Green Bay Packers, where he played for a year before joining the US Army.
5.
When Chet Adams returned from duty, the Rams had moved to Los Angeles, and he signed up to play for the Cleveland Browns, a team under formation in the AAFC.
6.
Chet Adams stayed with Cleveland between 1946 and 1948, a span during which the team won three AAFC championships.
7.
Chet Adams was then traded to the Buffalo Bills, where he stayed for a year.
8.
Chet Adams played for the NFL's New York Yanks for a final year before retiring.
9.
Chet Adams was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the city's South High School.
10.
Chet Adams was drafted in 1939 by the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League and played for the team until 1942.
11.
Chet Adams was selected to play in the NFL's All-Star game in 1941 and 1942.
12.
Chet Adams then played one season for the Green Bay Packers on loan from the Rams after the Rams suspended operations during World War II.
13.
Chet Adams joined the US Army in 1944 and served for 30 months until his discharge in the summer of 1946.
14.
Chet Adams, who was a placekicker as well as a guard, signed a contract to play for the Rams in 1946, but Rams owner Dan Reeves moved the team to Los Angeles after the 1945 season.
15.
Chet Adams refused to move to Los Angeles with the team, and the Rams sued him in federal court after he signed with the Cleveland Browns, a team under formation in the new All-America Football Conference.
16.
Chet Adams claimed that he had no obligation under his contract to play for the Rams because the team was described as the Cleveland Rams, and its name had changed to the Los Angeles Rams following the move.
17.
Later that month, Chet Adams testified before a federal court that he injured his leg in the College All-Star Game while playing for Green Bay in 1945 and was not, as the Rams claimed, a player of "unique ability".
18.
Red Conkright, a one-time Rams assistant who moved to the Browns' staff, testified that Chet Adams was an "erratic" kicker and "at present a second-team player".
19.
The judge rejected the Rams' contention that Chet Adams had signed to play for Reeves, not a specific team.
20.
Chet Adams ruled the Cleveland Rams had ceased to exist, and that Adams therefore had no obligation to fulfill a contract with the Los Angeles Rams.
21.
The Browns advanced to the AAFC championship that year, and Chet Adams, who had played primarily at right defensive tackle, was asked to do the team's place-kicking after Groza suffered a sprained ankle in an earlier game.
22.
Chet Adams continued to play as a defensive tackle and a backup to Groza in 1947.
23.
Chet Adams re-injured his neck in the championship game, another win over the Yankees.
24.
Chet Adams was part of a Cleveland team that won all of its games in 1948 and ended the season by beating the Buffalo Bills for a third straight championship.
25.
Chet Adams played a year in Buffalo, mainly as a kicker.
26.
Chet Adams then played a final year for the New York Yanks of the National Football League.
27.
Chet Adams was inducted into the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.