Alex Bennett (footballer)

For other people with the same name, see Alex Bennett (disambiguation).

Alec Bennett
Personal information
Full name Alexander Bennett
Date of birth (1881-09-20)20 September 1881
Place of birth Rutherglen, Scotland[1]
Date of death 9 January 1940(1940-01-09) (aged 58)
Place of death Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s) Outside right / centre forward
Youth career
Rutherglen Woodburn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1901–1903 Rutherglen Glencairn
1903–1908 Celtic 124 (47)
1908–1919 Rangers 188 (51)
1918–1919 → Ayr United (loan)
1919–1920 Dumbarton 43 (8)
1920–1921 Albion Rovers 30 (3)
International career
1904–1913 Scotland 11 (2)
1905–1912 Scottish League XI 10 (0)
Managerial career
1921–1924 Third Lanark
1924–1926 Clydebank
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Bennett (20 September 1881 – 9 January 1940) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic, Rangers and the Scotland national team.

A small right-winger, he was described in contemporary reports as "...a veritable artful dodger with rare speed and command of the ball."[2][3]

  1. ^ "Early Days". Alec Bennett (footballer) by David Carmichael. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. ^ Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who's Who, 1872–1986 (Hardback). Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4. ().
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference dodger was invoked but never defined (see the help page).