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Scottish footballer

Alex Venters
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Venters
Date of birth	9 June 1913
Place of birth	Cowdenbeath, Scotland
Date of death	30 April 1959(1959-04-30) (aged 45)
Place of death	Cowdenbeath, Scotland
Position(s)	Inside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	South End Rovers
0000–1930	St Andrews United
1930–1933	Cowdenbeath	96	(36)
1933–1946	Rangers	175	(89)
1946–1947	Third Lanark	8	(2)
1947–1948	Blackburn Rovers
1948	Raith Rovers	4	(0)
International career
1933–1939	Scotland	3	(0)
1935–1939	Scottish League XI	4	(1)
1940–1943	Scotland (wartime)	4	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Venters (9 June 1913 – 30 April 1959) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Cowdenbeath, Rangers and Scotland.

Career

Alex Venters, an inside forward, joined Rangers in November 1933 after his first club Cowdenbeath. He spent a total of 13 years at Ibrox Park, winning three Scottish league titles (1935, 1937 and 1939), two Scottish Cups (1935, 1936) and scoring 102 goals in 201 appearances. 18 of these 102 goals came against Celtic in various competitions. In the last season before association football was suspended due to World War II (1939) Venters was top scorer in the Scottish First Division (35 goals). Venters was also a prolific scorer during World War II; however, as these games were unofficial, his additional 53 wartime goals cannot be added to his official goalscoring record.

After the war, Venters played for Third Lanark, Blackburn Rovers and ended his career with Raith Rovers.

Between 1933 and 1939 he won three caps for Scotland, the first of which was against Ireland in 1933 while with Cowdenbeath. He won a further two official caps (both in matches against England) while at Rangers, in 1936 and 1939. He also played in four wartime internationals.

In 1959 he died prematurely from a heart attack at the age of 45.

Due to his prolific goalscoring in the 1930s and his great record in Old Firm matches he became a member of the Rangers Hall of Fame in 2006.

Personal life

Venters' father Sandy and brothers Andrew and Jock were also footballers.

References

^ "Alex Venters". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
"Venters Alec Image 1 Cowdenbeath 1932". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
Rangers.co.uk: History: Alex Venters Archived 20 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
"Top Goalscorers per division". Scottish-Football-Historical-Archive.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012.
FriendsOfRangers.co.uk: Legends In Blue Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
National-Football-Teams.com: Alex Venters
Weltfussball.de: Alex Venters Archived 21 December 2013 at archive.today
"Scottish Football Historical Archive – Scottish League appearance records – TUV". Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
LondonHearts.com: Alexander Venters
Rangerspedia: Venters, Alex
"Hometown Heroes (Local Footballers in Profile) – No. 17 – The Venters Family". Central Fife Times. Retrieved 30 December 2018.

External links

Alex Venters at the Scottish Football Association
Alex Venters at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database

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League	1891: Bell 1892: Bell 1893: Campbell / McMahon
Division One	1894: McMahon 1895: J. Miller 1896: Martin 1897: Taylor 1898: Hamilton 1899: Hamilton 1900: Hamilton / Michael 1901: Hamilton 1902: Maxwell 1903: D. Reid 1904: Hamilton 1905: Hamilton / Quinn 1906: Quinn 1907: Quinn 1908: Simpson 1909: Hunter 1910: Quinn 1911: W. Reid 1912: W. Reid 1913: J. Reid 1914: J. Reid 1915: Gracie / Richardson 1916: McColl 1917: Yarnall 1918: H. Ferguson 1919: McLean 1920: H. Ferguson 1921: H. Ferguson 1922: Walker 1923: White 1924: Halliday 1925: Devlin 1926: Devlin 1927: McGrory 1928: McGrory 1929: Morrison 1930: Yorston 1931: Battles 1932: MacFadyen 1933: MacFadyen 1934: Smith 1935: Smith 1936: McGrory 1937: Wilson 1938: Black 1939: Venters
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Division One	1957: Baird 1958: Bauld / Murray 1959: Baker 1960: Baker 1961: Harley 1962: Gilzean 1963: Millar 1964: Gilzean 1965: Forrest 1966: A. Ferguson / McBride 1967: Chalmers 1968: Lennox 1969: Cameron 1970: Stein 1971: Hood 1972: Harper 1973: Gordon 1974: Deans 1975: Gray / Pettigrew
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v t e Cowdenbeath F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees
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Managers	Duncan Harrow Levein Matthew Rolland

Cowdenbeath F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees

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v t e Rangers F.C. – Hall of Fame
Albertz Amoruso Archibald Baxter Bowie Brand G. Brown J. Brown R. Brown Butcher Cairns Caldow Campbell Conn Cooper Cox Craig Cunningham H. Davis S. Davis A. Dawson J. Dawson Dixon Drummond Durrant English B. Ferguson I. Ferguson Fleming Forsyth Gascoigne Gibson Gillick Goram Gordon Gough Gray Greig Hamilton Hateley Henderson Hubbard Jackson Jardine Johnston Johnstone Klos Laudrup Little MacDonald Manderson Mathieson McBeath McCall McCloy McCoist McColl McCulloch McGregor McKinnon McLean McMillan M. McNeil P. McNeil McPhail D. McPherson J. McPherson Meiklejohn Millar Morton Muirhead Niven Novo Parlane Provan Ricksen Ritchie Russell Scott Shaw Shearer W. Simpson J. Simpson A. Smith D. Smith J. Smith N. Smith Souness Stein Tavernier Thornton Vallance Venters Waddell Weir Wilkins Wilson Woodburn Woods Young

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