Cordner made just one VFL appearance for Hawthorn, against Collingwood at Glenferrie Oval during the 1933 season.

[1] His cousins were more successful, two of them Denis and Don, are members of the Melbourne Football Club Team of the Century.

The first of Cordner's three first-class cricket matches came in the Sheffield Shield competition of 1930–31 against South Australia, with his only notable contribution being the wicket of Bert Tobin.

[2] Four weeks later, at the MCG, he was part of the Victorian team which played a tour match with the West Indians.

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