[1] His football career ended prematurely when he broke his leg in 1900.

He married Alice Margaret Graves (1879-1962), at Rutherglen, Victoria, on 25 October 1904.

[7] He played his first match for South Melbourne, against Geelong, at the Lake Oval on 24 July 1897.

[8] In his second-last match, playing on the half-back flank, he was one of the best players in the South Melbourne 1899 Grand Final team that lost to Fitzroy by one point: 3.8 (26) to 3.9 (27).

[9] In the final quarter of his last match for South Melbourne, against Essendon on 5 May 1900 — he had been appointed the team's captain for the 1900 season[10] — he fell and broke his leg.