He was a member of the Australian rugby union team, which won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

[2] Prior to his rugby career he won state championships in swimming and soccer and played top-level water polo.

Four of his former Wallaby teammates also debuted that day John Barnett, Jack Hickey, Charles Russell and Chris McKivat – making them collectively Australia's 11th to 15th dual code internationals.

This repeated a similar occurrence two years earlier when five former Wallabies in Micky Dore, Dally Messenger, Denis Lutge, Doug McLean snr and John Rosewell all debuted for the Kangaroos in the first ever Test against New Zealand, he also represented Australasia.

[5] He returned to representative honors in 1914 playing two Tests when Australia hosted the Great Britain tourists.