Bill Fraser (Australian footballer)

Bill Fraser
Personal information
Full name	William Fraser
Date of birth	29 March 1867
Date of death	21 February 1938(1938-02-21) (aged 70)
Original team(s)	Port Melbourne (VFA)
Position(s)	Utility
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1897-1904	South Melbourne	88 (18)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904 season.

Bill 'Buns' Fraser (29 March 1867 – 21 February 1938)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for both South Melbourne and Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association.

Fraser joined Port Melbourne in 1889, and established himself as a forward. He was Port Melbourne's leading goalkicker each year from 1890 to 1893, including kicking 40 goals in the 1892 season.^[2] Highly sought after, he joined the neighbouring South Melbourne Football Club – at that time a bitter rival of Port Melbourne – in 1894; but Port Melbourne refused to transfer him, and he ultimately stood out of football for the whole of the 1894 season.^[3]

Prior to 1895, he was finally cleared to South Melbourne,^[4] where he played in both the VFA and VFL until 1904. Fraser captained South Melbourne in its first two VFL seasons. He could play a variety of positions and was used as a winger, forward and centreman during his career. Fraser was a forward pocket in the 1899 VFL Grand Final loss to Fitzroy.

References

↑ "Bill Fraser - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
↑ "Close of the Football Season". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 26 September 1892. p. 6.
↑ Keenan, Terry (2001), "Keeping out the riff-raff – Port Melbourne's exclusion from the Victorian Football League in 1896", Sporting Traditions 17 (2): 1–16
↑ "Football". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 3 May 1895. p. 3.

Bill Fraser's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Captains of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans

1897–1898: Fraser 1899: Adamson 1900: Windley 1901: Trim 1902: Windley 1903: Fogarty 1904–1905: McGee 1906: Howson 1907–1908: Dolphin 1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1915; 1917:* Belcher 1918–1919: Caldwell 1920: Belcher 1921: Willis 1922: Tandy 1923–1925: P. Scanlan 1926–1927: Pannam 1928: J. Scanlan 1929: Stanbridge 1930–1931: J. Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1937: Nash 1938–1945: Matthews 1946–1948: Graham 1949: Lucas 1950–1952: Lane 1953–1954: Clegg 1955: Gunn 1956: Gillett 1957–1960: Clegg 1961–1971: Skilton 1972: Rantall 1973–1976: Bedford 1977–1979: Quade 1980–1984: Round 1984–1985: Browning 1986–1992: Carroll 1993–2002: P. Kelly 2003–2005: Maxfield 2006–2007: Hall/Kirk/Barry 2008: Hall/Barry/Bolton 2009–2010: Bolton/Goodes/Kirk 2011–2012: Goodes/McVeigh 2013–: Jack/McVeigh

*South Melbourne did not participate in the VFL in 1916 due to World War I

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