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]

For the Sunderland player/manager, see Alex Mackie.
Alec Mackie
Personal information
Position(s) Inside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
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 very 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
  1. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. (Rangers player) Mackie, Alec, FitbaStats
  3. Football. | Scottish Cup Final., The Scotsman, 27 April 1903, via London Hearts Supporters Club
  4. Scottish Cup Final Tie. | Celtic v. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 18 April 1904
  5. Glasgow Rangers v Celtic 5-2 (Glasgow Charity Cup Final: May 14, 1904), via Play Up Liverpool
  6. Football. Glasgow Charity Cup–Final Tie, The Glasgow Herald, 16 May 1904
  7. Glasgow Cup–Final Tie. | Celtic V. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 10 October 1904
  8. Home Scots v. Anglo-Scots., The Glasgow Herald, 22 March 1904, via Partick Thistle History Archive
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