The Welsh team saw ten changes from the prior game against Scotland, which Wales had lost 10–35 and Parker was one of six new caps, five of them in the pack.

Parker worked tirelessly in the pack[3] along with Steve Morris and Charlie Pugh, but were let down by uninspiring back play.

Teddy Morgan, writing in the Western Mail, commented that "The Welsh side hardly deserved a score, though the forwards surpassed themselves."

Parker played the entire 1925 Five Nations Championship, one of only three players in the pack to hold their position throughout the tournament, the others being Aberavon's Bryn Phillips and Llanelli's Idris Jones.

Parker's final international cap was in the opening game of the 1930 campaign, a draw with England at the Arms Park.