Sandy Grosert

Sandy Grosert

Personal information
Full name	Alexander Ramsay Grosert
Date of birth	1 January 1889
Place of birth	Leith, Scotland
Position(s)	Right half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Leith Amateurs
1912–1920	Hibernian	96	(3)
1920–1923	Aberdeen	67	(0)
	Dunfermline Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Ramsay "Sandy" Grosert MC was a Scottish amateur football right half who played in the Scottish League for Hibernian and Aberdeen.

Personal life

Grosert served in McCrae's Battalion, the Machine Gun Corps and the Gordon Highlanders of the British Army during the First World War. Grosert was serving as a second lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders in 1918 when he performed an action which was recognised with the Military Cross:

For conspicuous gallantry in charge of a platoon during the operations near Rœux on August 27th, 1918. When the troops on his left flank retired and the enemy made a determined bombing attack on his position, he continued to go over the open under fire from one post to another directing and encouraging the men. He held on till only four of the men were left, and he was almost surrounded. He behaved splendidly.

Grosert was severely gassed and wounded during the war. After his retirement from football, he became an amateur golfer and was also a qualified dentist.

Career statistics

Club	Season	League			National Cup		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Hibernian	1911–12	Scottish League First Division	2	0	0	0	2	0
	1912–13		29	3	5	0	34	3
	1913–14		25	0	7	0	32	0
	1914–15		25	0	0	0	25	0
	1919–20		15	0	0	0	15	0
	Total		96	3	12	0	108	3
Aberdeen	1920–21	Scottish League First Division	29	0	4	1	33	1
	1921–22		17	0	3	0	20	0
	1922–23		21	0	1	0	22	0
	Total		67	0	8	1	75	1
Career total			163	3	20	1	183	4