His only club at the professional level was St Mirren, where he spent eleven seasons (all in the Scottish Football League's top division),[2] making 190 appearances for the Buddies in the two major competitions and scoring 73 goals.
[9] Wylie had to leave the field in the first half due to injury, with clubmate Andrew Brown allowed to replace him as a substitute (which had to be approved by the host body).
[9] Although St Mirren were also in contention for the SFL title, Brown and Wylie were accompanied by Edward McBain for the match in Belfast, and their club met Third Lanark without them, losing 6–1.
[10] Wylie was born in the village of Crosslee in Renfrewshire; his father died in 1875 and the family moved within the county, first to Lochwinnoch then to Paisley.
Having found a trade as an engineer in a paper mill, he was forced to retire from playing football in 1901 due to suffering from tuberculosis – he was unable to recover from the illness and died in April 1892, aged 29.