One in a long line of great wingers to play for Rangers and Scotland, Alexander Silcock Scott played 331 times for the Club whilst scoring 108 goals.
Succeeding the legendary Willie Waddell on the right wing, 18 year old Alex made a scoring debut against hometown side Falkirk during a 4-1 win at Ibrox in March 1955. It was a dream start for Alex who would go on to complete a second half hat-trick. That Gers side would contain the likes of Eric Caldow, Ian McColl, George Young & Billy Simpson.
Alex would become a bit of a European specialist in the years to come, scoring against top sides such as Anderlecht, Red Star Belgrade, Borussia Monchengladbach & Wolves. His goals against the latter two of those sides came in the inaugural European Cup Winners Cup competition of 1960/61, Rangers progressing all the way to the Final. Although defeated by Fiorentina over two legs, Alex would become the first Rangers player to score in a European Final, netting in the second leg overseas.
For many years Alex was the Club's record scorer in European competition, eventually overtaken by Ally McCoist in 1997 (McCoist himself subsequently eclipsed by Alfredo Morelos). With widespread changes to the structure of various competitions, allied to the number of qualifying rounds now being played, it is difficult to truly compare each achievement.
In the same season as that European run, 1960/61, Alex was on target for Rangers during the League Cup Final victory over Kilmarnock at Hampden Park when he scored the second goal.
The emergence of another outstanding winger by the name of Willie Henderson curtailed the Rangers career of Alex Scott and he headed South to Merseyside in February 1963. Still very much at the top of his own game, he helped Everton to win the English League Championship within months of his arrival, their first title since the war. He followed this up with an FA Cup medal in 1966 as the toffees defeated Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 at Wembley.
Alex passed away in September 2001 at just 64 years of age.
