Collingwood recruited Daily from Subiaco, who he had played with from 1931 and he made his VFL debut in the 1933 season.

In his first game for Geelong, in round one against St Kilda, Daily kicked ten goals.

When he left the WANFL in 1938 he had played 92 games and appeared seven times for Western Australia at interstate level.

He finished his career as captain-coach of the Mines Rovers in the Goldfields.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1911 is a stub.