Sandy Newbigging

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Sandy Newbigging

| image =

| fullname = Alexander Newbigging

| birth_date = 12 September 1876[http://thecityground.com/player.php?player_name=Alexander%20Newbigging Alexander Newbigging], TheCityGround.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022

| birth_place = Leadhills, Scotland

| death_date = {{death year and age|1976|1876}}

| death_place = West Calder, Scotland[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=Newbigging&surname_so=syn&forename=Alexander&forename_so=syn&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&sex=M&birth_year_range=1&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results], ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 17 February 2022[https://www.scotsman.com/regions/archives-rangers-v-arsenal-1973-1563075 From the archives: Rangers v Arsenal 1973], The Scotsman, 30 August 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2022

| position = Goalkeeper

| years1 = 1896–1897 | clubs1 = Lanark Athletic | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = 1897–1900{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}} | clubs2 = Abercorn | caps2 = 22 | goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1900 | clubs3 = → Lanark United (loan) | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = 1900–1901 | clubs4 = Queens Park Rangers | caps4 = 5 | goals4 = 0

| years5 = 1901–1905 | clubs5 = Nottingham Forest | caps5 = 7 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1905–1906 | clubs6 = Reading | caps6 = | goals6 =

| years7 = 1906–1908 | clubs7 = Rangers | caps7 = 60 | goals7 = 0

| years8 = 1908–1909 | clubs8 = Reading | caps8 = | goals8 =

| years9 = 1909–1910 | clubs9 = Coventry City | caps9 = 8 | goals9 = 0

| years10 = 1910 | clubs10 = Inverness Thistle | caps10 = | goals10 =

| totalcaps = | totalgoals =

}}

Alexander Newbigging (12 September 1876 – 1976) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest,{{ENFA}}{{cite book|last=Joyce|first=Michael|title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939|year=2004 |publisher=SoccerData|isbn=1-899468-67-6}} in the Southern Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Reading[https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/newbigging-alex-image-2-reading-1905/ Newbigging Alex Image 2 Reading 1905], Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 18 February 2022 (two one-season spells) and Coventry City,[https://www.11v11.com/players/alexander-newbigging-47061/ Alexander Newbigging], 11v11.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022 and in the Scottish Football League for Abercorn and Rangers.[https://www.fitbastats.com/rangers/player.php?playerid=1835 (Rangers player) Newbigging, Alex], FitbaStats. Retrieved 17 February 2022 Usually a goalkeeper, he is also recorded as having played outfield as a forward.[http://www.qprnet.com/seasonal-stats---files.html Seasonal Stats | Files], QPRnet{{efn|The outfield appearances referred to in the CityGround website were made at Queens Park Rangers – it is possible that the player involved in these matches was Sandy's brother Willie Newbigging who had already played for clubs in London while Sandy was already an established goalkeeper in Scotland; however the QPR site includes his first name as Alex and his next club as Nottingham Forest, and the 1901 United Kingdom census records him as lodging at an address in Willesden along with QPR player James Bellingham{{Cite web |url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1901&indiv=try&h=7042514|title=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901|access-date=20 February 2022|via =Ancestry UK| url-access=subscription}} (the same census lists Willie at home in Lanarkshire with the rest of their family).{{Cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/1753255:1101?tid=&pid=&queryId=9d44e7f5b0c755bfd1b52cd9ffb38a2c&_phsrc=jlN3107&_phstart=successSource |title=1901 Scotland Census|access-date=20 February 2022|via =Ancestry UK| url-access=subscription}}}}

His elder brother Willie{{cite book |first=Bob |last=Goodwin |title=The Spurs Alphabet |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AOqcDwAAQBAJ&dq=The+Spurs+Alphabet+Newbigging&pg=PA320 |publisher=Robwin Publishing House |year=2017 |page=320 |isbn= 978-0954043421}} and younger brother Harry[https://sites.google.com/site/hamiltonacademicalmemorybank/players/Newbigging-Harry-1915 Newbigging, Harry (1915)], Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 20 February 2022[http://thecityground.com/player.php?player_name=Henry%20Newbigging Henry Newbigging], TheCityGround.com. Retrieved 20 February 2022 were also footballers. He lived to the age of 99, and in 1973 was one of the guests of honour for Rangers' centenary events at Ibrox Park.