Sandy Higgins

Alexander Higgins MM (4 November 1885 – 15 March 1939) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward for Newcastle United, Kilmarnock, Nottingham Forest, Jarrow, Norwich City^[1] and the Scotland national team.

Sandy Higgins

Personal information
Full name	Alexander Higgins
Date of birth	4 November 1885
Place of birth	Kilmarnock, Scotland
Date of death	15 March 1939(1939-03-15) (aged 53)
Place of death	England
Position(s)	Centre forward
Youth career
	Rugby XI
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1904–1905	Kilmarnock	0	(0)
1905–1919	Newcastle United	126	(36)
1919–1920	Kilmarnock	26	(4)
1920–1921	Nottingham Forest
1921–1922	Jarrow
1922–1923	Norwich City
1923–1924	Wallsend
International career
1910–1911	Scotland	4	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Higgins was described as a player who could go by players with ease, but sometimes would be selfish with the ball and would try to do more than passing a simple ball.^{[citation needed]} He won a Football League Championship and FA Cup with Newcastle United, playing for the club between 1905 and 1919, appearing in 150 games and scoring 41 goals.^[2]

He later played for hometown club Kilmarnock,^[3] (where he had also been prior to joining Newcastle, without playing a first team game) and was with the club when they won the 1920 Scottish Cup, but did not play in the final because his father (Sandy Higgins Snr, also a footballer who had played for Kilmarnock as well as Derby County and Nottingham Forest)^[4] died on the same day – but still was awarded the medal due to the circumstances.

Higgins won four caps for Scotland, all while with Newcastle United.^[5][6]

Personal life

Higgins served as a corporal in the East Yorkshire Regiment and the Durham Light Infantry during the First World War and won the Military Medal during the course of his service.^[7]

Honours

Newcastle United

• Football League First Division: 1908–09^[8]
• FA Cup: 1909–10^[8]

Kilmarnock

• Scottish Cup: 1919–20^[5]