Bob Fraser (footballer)

Bob Fraser
Personal information
Full name Robert Fraser
Date of birth 1908
Place of birth Motherwell, Scotland
Date of death April 1985 (aged 76–77)
Place of death South Africa
Height 5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m)[1]
Position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Law Scotia
1927–1931 Albion Rovers 131 (5)
1931–1938 Aberdeen 194 (4)
Total 325 (9)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Robert Fraser was a Scottish professional football defender who played for Albion Rovers and Aberdeen.[2]

Fraser joined Aberdeen in 1931, and was appointed team captain in 1934. He emigrated to South Africa in 1938, a year after visiting the country on the club's summer tour.[1][3]

At representative level, he took part in a Scottish Football Association tour of North America in the summer of 1935, but none of the fixtures was a full international.[4][5]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[6]
Club Season League Scottish Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Aberdeen 1931–32 Scottish Division One 21 0 1 0 22 0
1932–33 25 1 1 0 26 1
1933–34 29 0 4 0 33 0
1934–35 36 1 7 0 43 1
1935–36 37 0 5 0 42 0
1936–37 18 1 0 0 18 1
1937–38 28 1 3 0 31 1
Total 194 4 21 0 215 4

References

  1. ^ a b "Bob Fraser profile". AFC Heritage Trust. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  2. ^ Litster, John (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian.
  3. ^ Tour Of South Africa 1937, AFC-Family/DNA
  4. ^ "Scottish Football Association Tour, 1935". Canadian Soccer History. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  5. ^ Neil Morrison (4 January 2018). "British "FA XI" Tours: 1935 Tour of Canada and USA by the Scottish FA". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Aberdeen Football Club Heritage Trust – Player Profile". afcheritage.org. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
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