[1] He scored 7 goals in 4 appearances for England Amateurs, including two hat-tricks in a 9–0 win against Germany, which still is the team's highest defeat of its history,[3] and against France in a 11–0 victory.
[4] He was also part of Great Britain's squad for the football tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.
[6] Porter attended Manchester Grammar School and later worked at the Horwich depot of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
[6] He enlisted as a private in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War and was killed at Gallipoli on 4 June 1915.
[2] This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1880s, is a stub.