As a centre half-forward, he was good enough to be selected to represent the league in exhibition games.
He was one of the Geelong defenders which kept Gordon Coventry goal-less in the 1925 VFL Grand Final, which they won by 10 points.
[1] After missing the semi-final, Ferguson had returned to the side at the expense of young Frank Mockridge.
[2] He returned to the Goldfields in 1926 but resumed his VFL career in 1927, firstly at Geelong, then at North Melbourne for the 1931 season.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1903 is a stub.