[6][7] He played Wearside League football for Seaham Albion and Southwick before signing for The Wednesday in 1906 as backup for Jack Lyall.
[8][9] Crinson made his Football League debut on 5 January 1907, standing in for Lyall who had been kicked on the arm in the previous match.
"[11] Lyall returned for the next match, and Crinson made three more appearances in the First Division in the following season,[12] at the end of which he was allowed to leave.
[14] He made 13 appearances for the first team in all before returning to the north east of England,[1] where he signed for North-Eastern League club Sunderland Rovers in September 1913.
[15] After the First World War, Crinson acted as secretary of Wearside League club Sunderland Comrades, and scouted on behalf of Brighton & Hove Albion.