[8] After one season with Arbroath he moved south to England and signed with Football League Third Division North team Rochdale.
After leaving Rochdale he signed in July 1933 with Irish League club Glenavon[10] but by early August, before the season commenced, he had been granted release from his contract.
[11] At the end of that month he joined Northampton Town[12] of the Football League Third Division South and stayed for the remainder of the 1933–1934 season.
[22] However once again his stay in the country was short – in mid September with football in the United Kingdom being disrupted by the Second World War his contract was cancelled by mutual consent[23] and he moved over the border to Ireland and signed-on with League of Ireland Sligo Rovers.
[24] He was the league's third-equal highest goalscorer over the 1939–1940 season with 15 goals[25] and played for the club in their losing appearance in the final of the 1940 FAI Cup.