Eadie Fraser

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]

Eadie Fraser

Fraser in Scotland kit, 1882
Personal information
Full name	Malcolm John Eadie Fraser
Date of birth	(1860-03-04)4 March 1860
Place of birth	Goderich, Ontario, Canada
Date of death	8 January 1886(1886-01-08) (aged 25)
Place of death	Sydney, Australia
Position(s)	Right wing forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1878–1884	Queen's Park
International career
1880–1883	Scotland	5	(4)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]

See also

• List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland