Playing as a rover, and making his debut, he was one of the 20 who played for Essendon in its first VFL match against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897: Jim Anderson, Edward "Son" Barry, Arthur Cleghorn, Tod Collins, Jim Darcy, Charlie Forbes, Johnny Graham, Joe Groves, George Hastings, Ted Kinnear, George Martin, Bob McCormick, Pat O'Loughlin, Gus Officer, Ned Officer, Bert Salkeld, George Stuckey, George Vautin, Norman Waugh, and Harry Wright.

He topped the club's goalkicking tally in 1899 and, on 26 August 1899 kicked 5 goals against St Kilda.

[5] Playing on the half-forward flank, he was a member of Richmond's 1905 Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership team.

[6][7] He died on 27 May 1951,[8][9] at the Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, three weeks after he was struck by a car, near his home in Moorabbin, on 5 May 1951.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1870s is a stub.