[4][5] He made 114 appearances and scored 30 goals during four seasons at Pittodrie and transferred to English First Division club Sunderland for a £400 fee in May 1907.
[4] Low played eight seasons for Sunderland, before the suspension of league football in 1915 (following the outbreak of the First World War) ended his competitive career with the club.
[4] During his time at Roker Park, Low made 228 appearances, scored 38 goals and was a part of the squad which won the 1912–13 First Division championship and reached the 1913 FA Cup Final.
[3][4] Low played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots annual international trial matches in 1909 and 1911 and was called up by Scotland for a friendly match versus Ireland in 1913,[6] but he pulled out of the squad in order to play in a 1912–13 FA Cup semi-final.
[2][8][9] In February 1917, 2+1⁄2 years after the outbreak of the First World War, Low enlisted in the Royal Navy as an able seaman.