A right-half, he played competitively for Stoke, Burslem Port Vale, Philadelphia Hibernian (United States), Northampton Town, and Northern Nomads.

[1] He played all 45 games of the 1898–99 season, and helped the Vale to a ninth-place finish in the Second Division and to win the Staffordshire Senior Cup.

He emigrated to the United States, where he played for Philadelphia Hibernian,[1] and worked for the Lenox China factory in New Jersey.

[4] His art career seemingly not taking off in the way he had envisaged, he returned to England in 1905 and joined Northampton Town; in November he made an unsuccessful comeback at Port Vale, where he played just one league game.

Three years later, he left to work for the New Hall Pottery Company in Staffordshire, where he produced a range called "Boumier Ware", each piece of which carried his facsimile signature.