Gould was one of five brothers who played rugby for Newport, including Welsh internationals Arthur and Robert.

Under the captaincy of his brother Arthur, Gould was chosen to play in the last of the games of the tournament against Ireland.

With the Scottish and English games already won, Wales needed to beat the Irish to lift the Triple Crown for the first time in the country's history.

[4] By the next season, Gould had travelled to Barbados to complete civil engineering work.

He later moved to South Africa, and turned out for both the King William's Town Pirates and the Johannesburg Wanderers.