Ted Ness

Ted Ness was in the Birmingham City team that lost to Northampton Polytechnic Institute (NPI) in the final of the 1912 Adams Shield, for the National Team Championship. The following year Ness was the Birmingham and District individual runner-up to John Walker, and in 1914 Ness was a member of the Birmingham City team that gained revenge over NPI and beat them in the final of the Adams Shield. After World War I, Ness was one of nine Birmingham men in the Great Britain squad at the 1920 Antwerpen Olympics. By occupation, he worked in the West Midlands brass and steel industry.