Alex Craig (footballer)

Alex Craig
Craig with Ireland in 1914
Personal information
Full name Alexander Breckenridge Craig
Date of birth 2 April 1886
Place of birth Galway, Ireland
Date of death 16 February 1951(1951-02-16) (aged 64)
Place of death Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s) Full-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Rutherglen Glencairn
1905–1912 Rangers 102 (0)
1911–1912Morton (loan) 28 (0)
1912–1914 Morton 52 (1)
1914–1916 Rangers 42 (0)
Johnstone
International career
1908–1914 Ireland[1] 9 (0)
1915[2] SFL XI (wartime) 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Breckenridge Craig (born 2 April 1886 – 16 February 1951) was a footballer who played for Rangers, Greenock Morton and Ireland as a left back.[3]

He is one of only four players born in what is now the Republic of Ireland to play for Rangers; the others were Alex Stevenson, Jon Daly and James Lowry McAuley.

  1. ^ Alex Craig at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ Association Football. Belgian Refugees' Fund, The Glasgow Herald, 17 May 1915
  3. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.