In 1917 he was involved in a breakaway movement from the club that switched to rugby league, playing matches against Ponsonby United where he scored a try in their 12-3 win, and the City Rovers.

[1] Railway XIII merged with Grafton Athletic for the 1918 Auckland Rugby League season, though Dacre did not play for them.

Dacre was a hard-hitting, somewhat impetuous, right-handed middle order batsman[2] and an occasional slow left-arm bowler, who also kept wicket a few times in a first-class career that spanned more than 20 years.

Winning a regular place for Gloucestershire as soon as he was qualified in 1930, he made more than 1,000 runs in each of the next six seasons, though his average declined steadily over the period.

[6] Dacre was also a member of the North Shore side who reached the 1926 Chatham Cup final, losing 4–2 to Sunnyside.