He polled well in a couple of Brownlow Medal counts with a seventh placing in 1937 and an equal sixth in 1941.
He later served as coach of South Adelaide and also played briefly for the club.
His shin was lacerated in a football game, and the wound never healed properly.
He had surgery after retirement to repair the wound and died from surgical complications.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1916 is a stub.