Career
Fraser had earlier played for, Motherwell, N ottinghamshire County, Newcastle United, Street Mirren and He also represented both Scotland and the Scottish League XI. In addition, while with he earned a representative cap for shire against Glasgow in 1897. He later went on to coach and Chelsea.
Jack Fraser started his football career at the late age of 18 with his local club, where he appeared as part of the team that lost the Scottish Cup final 5–1 to Rangers in 1897.
After then spending one season with Motherwell he decided to try his luck in England and joined First Division club N ottinghamshire County in January 1898. He remained at County for eighteen months before moving on to Newcastle United where he remained for two seasons, until returning to Scotland with Street Mirren for the 1901-1902 season.
Fraser represented the Scottish League XI in 1902. By the time he joined in May 1902 he had clocked up eight years with five different clubs with no conspicuous success.
In an effort to reclaim the Southern League title, recruited six new players, including fellow Scots, Tom Robertson from Liverpool and Mark Bell from Heart of Midlothian.
Fraser scored a hat-trick on his debut against Brentford on 6 September 1902 (with the other goals from fellow débutante Tom Barlow (2) and Harry Wood) and soon became a fixture in the side and missed only a handful of games in the 1902-1903 season, including twice giving way to C. B. Fry for his final appearances for the club On 13 December 1902 he scored four goals as Saints recorded their joint highest victory margin of 11–0 against Watford. When he joined the Saints he originally played at centre-forward, but he soon switched to inside-left where he had his best games and soon became a crowd favourite.
Saints finished Fraser"s first season by taking the Southern League championship for the fifth time in seven years with Fraser contributing 15 goals.
This success was repeated in the following season, although in February 1903 he lost his place through injury to Fred Mouncher. He was restored to the starting line-up for the 1904-1905 season where he continued to dovetail well on the left with George Hedley, but Saints finished the season in a disappointing third place.
Fraser had planned on remaining in as his intention was to purchase a tobacconist"s business in the town, but the deal fell through and he then accepted excellent terms from and returned to Scotland. The return to Scotland paid dividends as he was to gain an international cap for Scotland on 16 March 1907 in a 1–0 victory over Ireland.
Fraser moved back to England in 1919 to work for Chelsea, firstly as a scout.
He was later an assistant manager under David Calderhead and Leslie Knighton.