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Adams graduated from [[Wyandotte High School]] in 1917, the same year brothers Lee Eldas "L.E." and [[Frank Phillips (oil industrialist)|Frank Phillips]] founded the [[Phillips Petroleum Company]]. After graduating, Adams moved to [[Dewey, Oklahoma]] and started his first job. He delivered ice in the neighboring town of [[Bartlesville]]. Adams said he was happy that the work involved heavy lifting, because it helped him maintain his physical conditioning which he would need as a college athlete.<ref name="LJW"/> He enrolled at the [[University of Kansas]] in the fall of 1917, and played on the university's football, baseball, and basketball teams. Although he would have graduated the following year, Adams dropped out of the university in 1920. He decided to place academics on hold and accept a position in the Phillips Petroleum Company.<ref name="LJW"/><ref name="ICEJ"/><ref name="Auto7W-2"/>
On 08 Sep 1920, Adams married Barbara Blanche Keeler; whose brother, [[W. W. Keeler]], would later become President and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips Petroleum Corporation and Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Their eldest son, [[Bud Adams|Kenneth S. Jr.]], would himself become a business magnate and owner of the [[Tennessee Titans]]. They also had a daughter, Mary Louise.In 1945, Boots and Blanche Adams were divorced. Boots Adams married Dorothy Glynn Stephens the following year.<ref name="ingham"/><ref name="TDOR16"/>
==Career at Phillips Petroleum==
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