From Milton, Ontario, where he attended school, Sproule was a competitive cyclist and played amateur hockey in his hometown.
Sproule was related to William Kingston Flesher (June 10, 1825 – July 22, 1907), a settler of southwestern Ontario, a militia officer, businessman and political figure.
As well as founding the village of Flesherton, he represented the riding of Grey East in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1872 to 1878.
[15] On January 22, 1914, he was the referee for one of the wildest games in OUA league history in when spectators in Collingwood, Ontario, rioted, came onto the ice and threatened and assaulted Sproule.
[16] J. Ross Robertson issued a warning to Collingwood following the incident that another similar instance would result in a ban to the town and the rink.
[17] In 1915, he was involved with a decision by the Toronto's Beaches Hockey League to grant soldiers the same privileges in the BHL as they had in the OHA at the time.
[26] In 1928, Sproule threw third stones for the Lakeview Curling Club team under skip Charles Snow that finished in a three-way tie for first place through the round-robin at the 1928 Macdonald Brier.