Fergie played his early football at Scotch College before starting his league career in 1915.
[1] After appearing in the opening three rounds of the 1916 VFL season, he embarked for Europe to serve with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion in the war and would fight on the Western Front.
[2] He returned to Australia in 1919 and played seven games for Fitzroy that year.
[3] In 1922 he was Fitzroy's first rover in their premiership side and also played in their team which lost the 1923 VFL Grand Final.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1895 is a stub.