[7] Wrout, "a defender of pace and determination" was recruited for the North Melbourne Football Club, in the VFL, "from the C.Y.M.S.
On 10 July 1933, along with team-mate Charlie Gaudion, Wrout was selected as one of the (obligatory) two men from the North Melbourne club in the VFL's representative team for the Eighth Australian National Football Carnival, to be held, in Sydney in the first two weeks of August; and it was speculated that he would be part of the First XVIII, and play on the half-forward flank.
[10] Ten minutes into North Melbourne's next home-and-away match, against Fitzroy, at the very muddy and heavy Brunswick Street Oval, on 15 July 1933, Wrout, who was playing at centre half-forward, went down in a crush of players and broke his left leg.
[11] His injury meant that he was unable to play for Victoria, and his (North Melbourne) place in the team was taken by Jim Adamson.
Playing at centre half-forward, he was considered among the best on the ground in Carlton's 1938 VFL grand final victory against Collingwood, kicking four goals.