He competed in the Men's Standing High Jump, where he was the youngest out of the 23 athletes in the event and the only from the Australasian team.

In the Great War, Hutcheon fought in Europe, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

His Queensland representative cricket career began in 1920 when he made his first-class debut in a match against New South Wales.

[3] He made his highest score and only half century, an innings of 71 when Queensland took on New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the 1925/26 season.

[6] Outside of sport, he worked as a barrister and, as well as practising in the Queensland Crown Law Office, also had a private practice in his hometown.