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Sandy Newbigging

Alexander Newbigging was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, in the Southern Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Coventry City, and in the Scottish Football League for Abercorn and Rangers. Usually a goalkeeper, he is also recorded as having played outfield as a forward.

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Sandy Newbigging
Personal information
Full name Alexander Newbigging
Date of birth 12 September 18761
Place of birth Leadhills, Scotland
Date of death 1976 (aged 99–100) 2
Place of death West Calder, Scotland34
Position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1896–1897 Lanark Athletic
1897–19005 Abercorn 22 (0)
1900 → Lanark United (loan)
1900–19016 Queens Park Rangers 5 (0)
1901–1905 Nottingham Forest 7 (0)
1905–1906 Reading
1906–1908 Rangers 60 (0)
1908–1909 Reading
1909–1910 Coventry City 8 (0)
1910 Inverness Thistle
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Newbigging (12 September 1876 – 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest,271 in the Southern Football League for Queens Park Rangers,6 Reading8 (two one-season spells) and Coventry City,9 and in the Scottish Football League for Abercorn5 and Rangers.410 Usually a goalkeeper, he is also recorded as having played outfield as a forward.16a

His elder brother Willie11 and younger brother Harry1415 were also footballers. He lived to the age of 99, and in 1973 was one of the guests of honour for Rangers' centenary events at Ibrox Park.4

Notes

Notes

  1. The outfield appearances referred to in the CityGround website1 were made at Queens Park Rangers6 – it is possible that the player involved in these matches was Sandy's brother Willie Newbigging who had already played for clubs in London11 while Sandy was already an established goalkeeper in Scotland; however the QPR site includes his first name as Alex and his next club as Nottingham Forest, and the 1901 United Kingdom census records him as lodging at an address in Willesden along with QPR player James Bellingham12 (the same census lists Willie at home in Lanarkshire with the rest of their family).13
References

References

  1. Alexander Newbigging, TheCityGround.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022
  2. Sandy Newbigging at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  3. Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results, ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 17 February 2022
  4. From the archives: Rangers v Arsenal 1973, The Scotsman, 30 August 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2022
  5. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Seasonal Stats | Files, QPRnet
  7. Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. SoccerData. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
  8. Newbigging Alex Image 2 Reading 1905, Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 18 February 2022
  9. Alexander Newbigging, 11v11.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022
  10. (Rangers player) Newbigging, Alex, FitbaStats. Retrieved 17 February 2022
  11. Goodwin, Bob (2017). The Spurs Alphabet. Robwin Publishing House. p. 320. ISBN 978-0954043421.
  12. "Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901". Retrieved 20 February 2022 – via Ancestry UK.
  13. "1901 Scotland Census". Retrieved 20 February 2022 – via Ancestry UK.
  14. Newbigging, Harry (1915), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 20 February 2022
  15. Henry Newbigging, TheCityGround.com. Retrieved 20 February 2022