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Alex Gardner (footballer)

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Alex Gardner
Personal information
Full name Alexander Gardner
Date of birth 1877
Place of birth Leith, Scotland
Date of death 1952 (aged 77)
Place of death South Shields, England
Position(s) Right half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1897–1899 Leith Athletic 33 (13)
1899–1910 Newcastle United 279 (22)
Total 312 (35)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Gardner (1877 – 1952) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a right half.

Career

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Born in Leith, Gardner played for local club Leith Athletic[1] then moved to Newcastle United at the end of 1899, making over 300 appearances in the English Football League and FA Cup over the next decade.[2] He won three League titles: 1904–05, 1906–07 and 1908–09 (plus the 1907 Sheriff of London Charity Shield in 1907), and played in three FA Cup finals in 1905, 1906 and 1908, though finishing on the losing side in all of them; he had retired through injury by the time the club first claimed the trophy in 1910.[2]

He played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots annual international trial match on four occasions,[1] but despite his consistent success at club level was never selected for Scotland.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  2. ^ a b c Toon1892 profile