[3] A Runanga club player, Menzies was a West Coast and South Island representative.
Menzies played in 69 games, including twenty-nine test matches for the New Zealand national rugby league team, participating in three World Cups.
[4] Menzies was selected to go on the 1955–56 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain and France.
[3] At the end of his test career, in 1963, Menzies became a player-coach for Harden-Murrumburrah, a New South Wales country team.
[3] In 1989 Menzies was named as the West Coast Rugby League's best ever stand-off half.