Eadie Fraser | |
Fullname: | Malcolm John Eadie Fraser |
Birth Date: | 4 March 1860 |
Birth Place: | Goderich, Ontario, Canada |
Death Place: | Sydney, Australia |
Years1: | 1878–1884 |
Clubs1: | Queen's Park |
Nationalyears1: | 1880–1883 |
Nationalteam1: | Scotland |
Nationalcaps1: | 5 |
Nationalgoals1: | 4 |
Malcolm John Eadie Fraser (4 March 1860 – 8 January 1886) was a Scottish international footballer who played for Queen's Park and Scotland in the 1870s and 1880s.[1] [2]
Fraser was born in Goderich, Canada West, the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister. Returning to Scotland as a boy, he was brought up in Glasgow. A talented footballer, he won five caps for Scotland between 1880 and 1883, scoring four goals in the process.[3] At Queen's Park he won two Scottish Cup medals in 1881 and 1882 plus three Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups,[4] and was club secretary in 1882–83.[1]
He died in Sydney, Australia of tuberculosis shortly after arriving on a sea journey from Scotland, having been sent there in an effort to cure the effects of the illness, which he contracted while working in Nigeria.[1]