Life in the U.S. did not suit Auld and he decided to return to Scotland; however, he stopped en route to visit his sister who lived in Niagara Falls, New York.

Team owners used these qualities to draw many of the top European, especially English and Scottish, players to the U.S. Auld would spend six seasons with Providence, playing 277 games with them.

While Auld had an excellent professional career, he is best known as a member of the United States national team which took third place at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

He would score two goals on his international debut, his only efforts for the national team, but would not feature for the U.S. again until the first game of the World Cup.

[5] Auld was one of five native Scots to be included in American World Cup squad along with Alexander Wood, Bart McGhee, James Brown and Jimmy Gallagher.

According to the U.S. coach, Wilfred Cummings, the Argentinians scored their third goal “only after Andy Auld had his lip ripped wide open and one of the players from across the La Platte River had knocked the smelling salts out of Trainer Coll's hand and into Andy's eyes, temporarily blinding one of the outstanding 'little stars' of the World's Series."

As substitutes were not permitted at the time, Auld played the rest of the game with a rag stuffed in his mouth to stem the bleeding.