McIntyre, a ruckman, began his football career at Sandringham in 1939 before crossing to the VFL where he joined St Kilda.

A dentist by profession, he played his football as an amateur and didn't appear at all for St Kilda in 1942 due to Navy commitments.

He represented Victoria in an interstate match against South Australia at Adelaide in 1945.

[1] This rubbed coach Fred Froude and the St Kilda committee up the wrong way and when McIntyre was relegated to 19th man for a game in 1948 he resigned and switched to Collingwood.

A club cricketer for St Kilda during the 1940s,[2] McIntyre also played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria as a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler, taking 11 wickets at a bowling average of 16.45 runs per wicket.