Alec Mackie (Scottish footballer)
Alec Mackie was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an inside right and featured for Rangers between 1902 and 1905.[1][2]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position(s) | Inside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Raith Rovers | |||
| 1902–1905 | Rangers | 51 | (24) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
He won the Scottish Cup in 1903, scoring in the second replay which eventually secured victory over Heart of Midlothian.[3] He also played in the 1904 final of the competition, a defeat to Celtic[4] (he played at centre forward on that occasion with regular marksman R.C. Hamilton missing through injury), gaining some revenge by scoring in a win over the same opponents in the final of the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup a month later,[5][6] only to finish on the losing side in an Old Firm final again five months after that, this time in the Glasgow Cup[7] in the period when the competitive rivalry between the two clubs was intensifying. His final appearance for Rangers came in February 1905,[2] and, other than the fact that he came from Raith Rovers,[1] little is documented of his life and career either side of that fairly prominent spell at Ibrox (as with teammate Alex Fraser).
Mackie took part in the annual Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in 1904,[1][8] but is not recorded as having received any other representative honours.
References
- John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires
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- Football. | Scottish Cup Final., The Scotsman, 27 April 1903, via London Hearts Supporters Club
- Scottish Cup Final Tie. | Celtic v. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 18 April 1904
- Glasgow Rangers v Celtic 5-2 (Glasgow Charity Cup Final: May 14, 1904), via Play Up Liverpool
- Football. Glasgow Charity Cup–Final Tie, The Glasgow Herald, 16 May 1904
- Glasgow Cup–Final Tie. | Celtic V. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 10 October 1904
- Home Scots v. Anglo-Scots., The Glasgow Herald, 22 March 1904, via Partick Thistle History Archive