He twisted a knee in the inter-university match of 13 December 1906; and this injury curtailed any subsequent provincial and international career.
[6] In 1907, the Dundee Courier of 21 January seemed unsympathetic to Scoular's twisted knee when he could not fulfil his selection to play against Wales.
Scoular was originally selected in hope by the Scotland selectors but the injury could not heal sufficiently.
In the newspaper obituary of the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer of Friday 11 September 1953, he was recorded as Major John Gladstone Scoular.
His funeral took place at Wragby church, near Wakefield; before his cremation at Lawnswood.