Alex Fraser (Scottish footballer)


Alex Fraser was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an defender and featured for Rangers between 1902 and 1906.
He won the Scottish Cup in 1903, in which Heart of Midlothian were defeated after two replays. A frequent but not constant starter, he missed out on a place in the 1904 Scottish Cup Final, a defeat to Celtic, but did take part in a win over the same opponents in the final of the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup a month later, only to finish on the losing side in an Old Firm final again five months after that, this time in the Glasgow Cup in the period when the competitive rivalry between the two clubs was intensifying.
More disappointment was to follow for Rangers at the end of that season as they lost the 1905 Scottish Cup Final to Third Lanark after a replay, then suffered another defeat to Celtic in a play-off for the 1904–05 Scottish Division One title, both having finished level on points. Fraser played in only two matches the following season, and very little is documented of his life and career either side of that fairly prominent spell at Ibrox.