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.
[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.
[5][6] 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] Newcastle United Kilmarnock This biographical article related to association football in Scotland, about a forward born in the 1880s, is a stub.