McDougall stayed on Merseyside after playing his last game for Liverpool on 15 January 1938, in a 3–0 defeat to Charlton Athletic at The Valley.
Before he finally hung his boots up he turned out for local side South Liverpool, thereafter coaching their youth team.
[1] Scotland called up McDougall for a European tour in 1931, leaving most of their established players at home.
He made his international debut in a friendly match at the Hohe Warte Stadium, Vienna against Austria on 16 May, as the Scots were resoundingly beaten 5–0.
[3] His elder brother Jock McDougall was also a footballer who played for Airdrieonians and Sunderland, and appeared once for Scotland.