Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alexander Ferguson | ||
Date of birth | 1913[1] | ||
Place of birth | Monifieth, Scotland[2] | ||
Position(s) | Outside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | Lochee Harp | ||
1934–1936 | St Johnstone | 48 | (12) |
1936 | → Hibernian (loan) | 8 | (1) |
1936–1939 | Heart of Midlothian | 15 | (3) |
1939 | Rochdale | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alexander Ferguson (born 1913-?) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right for clubs including St Johnstone, Hibernian and Heart of Midlothian.
While with St Johnstone, he was selected for a Scottish Football Association tour of North America in the summer of 1935; none of the matches was considered a full international.[3][4][5] He had earlier represented his country at Junior level while with Lochee Harp.[6]
His spell at Hibs[7] was a short end-of-season loan to aid the team in their fight against relegation in 1935–36, which was successful. He then signed for their Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts, where a first campaign establishing himself was followed by a goal in the first round of the 1937–38 season;[8] he also scored in the club's next fixture against Hibs in the Wilson Cup, but then suffered a badly broken leg in the last minute of the match.[9] Ferguson never played for Hearts again due to the injury, signing for Rochdale in 1939 after a short trial with Falkirk, but he only made one Football League appearance prior to the outbreak of World War II, with the matches played declared void.[10]