Coaching Career
Vital Statistics
- Nickname(s)
- Chook
- Born
- Wednesday, 11th January, 1893
- Died
- Saturday, 31st January, 1981 (Aged 88 years and 20 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- The Ashes
- 1911/1912, 1920
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Australia 1919
- Interstate Series
- 1915, 1919, 1920, 1921
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1924
- City Cup
- 1917, 1923
- International Hall Of Fame
- 2006
- National Rugby League Hall Of Fame
- 2006, 2008
Biography
Pivotal figure in the history of the Balmain club had his grounding in Australian Rules before switching to league. The pocket-sized fullback (5’4” or 1.63cm) was just 18 year old when he was a late selection to tour with the 1911-12 Kangaroos (Fraser replaced ‘Dally’ Messenger and is still the younger player, at 18 years 301 days, to play Test football). He played in 20 matches in England and made his debut in the First Test. Three years later Fraser took on the English again, playing five-eighth in the final two Tests of the 1914 Ashes series. A member of the great Balmain sides that won six premierships (1915-17, 1919-20 & 1924), including the undefeated 1915-16 seasons, Fraser toured NZ in 1919 and played in the series against the Lions in 1920. Australia won the Ashes for the first time on home soil and, the following year, Fraser was selected as vice-captain of the 1921-22 Kangaroos. Deputising for injured captain Les Cubitt ‘Chook’ Fraser led Australia in all three Tests against England - some ten years after he made his Test debut. Tragically, he broke his leg in the third and deciding match of the series and the Ashes were lost. After playing in a 'Kangaroos v. Rest of Australia' promotion in 1922 Fraser was granted a testimonial year in 1923. The first Balmain player to play 150 first grade games Fraser captained Balmain to the win the 1924 premiership before leaving Sydney in 1926 with a record number of first grade games to his credit. In 1927 he led Gundagai to victory in the Maher Cup competition before retiring the following year when injured in a trial match. He returned to the Tigers as coach in 1932 and passed away – a legend in the Balmain district and in the game itself - in 1981. In 2006 Charles ‘Chook’ Fraser was inducted into the RL Hall of Fame.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Coaching Career Statistics
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Competition | Games | W | L | D | Win % | |||||||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 6 | 64 | 37 | 22 | 5 | 57.81% | List | |||||||
NSWRFL Finals | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||||||
City Cup | 2 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 57.89% | List | |||||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1921 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.50% | List | |||||||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1922 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 50.00% | List | |||||||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1923 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 62.50% | List | |||||||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1924 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 77.78% | List | |||||||
Balmain | NSWRFL 1932 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 46.67% | List | |||||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Balmain | 1921-24, 1932 | 64 | 37 | 22 | 5 | 57.81% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Tony McCarron, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Bill Bates, Neil Pollock
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