[1] He played eighteen times for the "Potters" in 1905–06, hitting the net in a 4–0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Victoria Ground.

Stoke failed to win a match, and Croxton was never given a chance again, losing his place to George Baddeley, who was returning from injury.

[1] He helped the club to both top the division and lift the Staffordshire Junior Cup in 1910 before he retired from football the following year.

His eldest son, also named Harry, became a director of Chivers and had a daughter, Jennifer, who became a RADA trained actress and appeared in the celebrated 1960s spy-fi series The Avengers.

One of his daughters, Clara, won the Staffordshire ballroom dancing championship in 1937 with her partner, Basset Riseley, whose father was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent.